Progressive accretionary tectonics of the Beishan orogenic collage, southern Altaids: Insights from zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic data of high-grade complexes

Precambrian Research

Volumn 227, Issue , 2013, Pages 368-388

  Song, Dongfang ^a,b   Xiao, Wenjiao ^a   Han, Chunming ^a   Li, Jiliang ^a   Qu, Junfeng ^a   Guo, Qianqian ^a,b   Lin, Lina ^a,b   Wang, Zhongmei ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Beishan Complex; Hf isotope; Paleozoic; Progressive accretion; Southern Altaids; U Pb age

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; OROGENIC BELT; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

BEISHAN; CHINA; NEI MONGGOL; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84875212743     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.06.011     Document Type: Article

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