Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of early Silurian high-K calc-alkaline granites and their potassic microgranular enclaves, western Kunlun orogen, NW Tibetan Plateau

International Geology Review

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 958-975

  Jia, Ru Ya ^a   Jiang, Yao Hui ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a   Zhao, Peng ^a   Zhou, Qing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Granites; High K calc alkaline rocks; Microgranular enclaves; NW China; Proto Tethys; Western Kunlun orogen

Indexed keywords

CALC ALKALINE ROCK; EMPLACEMENT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GRANITE; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEANIC CRUST; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROGENESIS; PLUTON; POTASSIUM; PRECAMBRIAN; SHRIMP DATING; SILURIAN; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TECTONIC SETTING; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84878013788     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2012.755766     Document Type: Article

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