Field geology, geochronology and geochemistry of mafic-ultramafic rocks from Alxa, China: Implications for Late Permian accretionary tectonics in the southern Altaids

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 114-142

  Feng, Jianyun ^a,b   Xiao, Wenjiao ^a,c   Windley, Brian ^d   Han, Chunming ^a,c   Wan, Bo ^a   Zhang, Ji'en ^a   Ao, Songjian ^a   Zhang, Zhiyong ^a   Lin, Lina ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretionary tectonics; Altaids; Alxa; Late Permian; Mafic ultramafic rocks; Ridge subduction

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CARBONIFEROUS; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAFIC ROCK; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; PARENT BODY; PARTIAL MELTING; PERMIAN; PLATE TECTONICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ALXA PLATEAU; CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84885924167     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.01.020     Document Type: Article

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