The crustal accretion history and tectonic evolution of the NE China segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Gondwana Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1365-1377

  Zhou, Jian Bo ^a,b   Wilde, Simon A ^a,b  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Central Asian Orogenic Belt; Combined NE China plates; NE China Khondalitic Belt; Pacific plate subduction; Solonker Xar Moron Changchun suture zone

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BASEMENT ROCK; GNEISS; KHONDALITE; METAMORPHISM; OROGENIC BELT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA;

EID: 84875378169     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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