Geochronological, geochemical and Nd-Hf-Os isotopic fingerprinting of an early Neoproterozoic arc-back-arc system in South China and its accretionary assembly along the margin of Rodinia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 231, Issue , 2013, Pages 343-371

  Wang, Yuejun ^a,b   Zhang, Aimei ^a   Cawood, Peter A ^c,d   Fan, Weiming ^a   Xu, Jifeng ^a   Zhang, Guowei ^b   Zhang, Yuzhi ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arc and back arc system; Earliest Neoproterozoic; Eastern South China Block; Metabasic rocks; MORB and or arc like geochemical signatures; Periphery of Rodinia

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BACKARC BASIN; BASALT; CONVERGENT MARGIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OROGENY; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SERPENTINITE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CATHAYSIA BLOCK; CHINA; SOUTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84877342675     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2013.03.020     Document Type: Article

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