Detrital zircons reveal no Jurassic plateau in the eastern North China Craton

Gondwana Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 622-634

  Li, Hong Yan ^a   Xu, Yi Gang ^a   Liu, Yu Ming ^b   Huang, Xiao Long ^a   He, Bin ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon; East North China Craton; Lithospheric evolution; Paleo plateau; Prototype basin

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CRATON; DELAMINATION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; JURASSIC; MANTLE CONVECTION; SANDSTONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84879549915     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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