Locating South China in Rodinia and Gondwana: A fragment of greater India lithosphere?

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 903-906

  Cawood, Peter A ^a,b   Wang, Yuejun ^c   Xu, Yajun ^d   Zhao, Guochun ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

CURRENT LIMITS; DETRITAL ZIRCON AGE SPECTRUM; EARLY PALEOZOIC; LATE PALEOZOIC; MAGMATIC ARCS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

AGE DETERMINATION; CRATON; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GONDWANA; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PALEOZOIC; RIFTING; RODINIA; SUBDUCTION ZONE; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA; INDIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84886299169     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34395.1     Document Type: Article

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