Late Triassic melting of a thickened crust in southeastern China: Evidence for flat-slab subduction of the Paleo-Pacific plate

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 265-279

  Zhu, Kong Yang ^a,b   Li, Zheng Xiang ^a   Xu, Xi Sheng ^b   Wilde, Simon A ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active continental margin; Crustal thickening; Flat slab subduction; South China; Syenite quartz monzonite complex; Western Pacific

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MARGIN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKENING; CRUSTAL THINNING; EXTENSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOLOGY; LOWER CRUST; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; METASOMATISM; MONZONITE; PACIFIC PLATE; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGRAPHY; PLUTON; QUARTZ; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; SYENITE; TRACE ELEMENT; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); ZHEJIANG;

EID: 84882905747     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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