New evidence for ~4.45Ga terrestrial crust from zircon xenocrysts in Ordovician ignimbrite in the North Qinling Orogenic Belt, China

Gondwana Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1484-1490

  Diwu, Chunrong ^a   Sun, Yong ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b   Wang, Hongliang ^a   Dong, Zengchan ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a   Wang, Qian ^b  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancient crustal recycling; Early Earth; Hadean; Zircon Hf model ages

Indexed keywords

CRUST; FELSIC ROCK; IGNIMBRITE; MAGMA; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC BELT; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; VOLCANIC ROCK; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA; JACK HILLS; QINLING BELT; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84875377878     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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