Earliest Paleoproterozoic supracrustal rocks in the North China Craton recognized from the Daqingshan area of the Khondalite Belt: Constraints on craton evolution

Gondwana Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1535-1553

  Dong, Chunyan ^a   Wan, Yusheng ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b   Xu, Zhongyuan ^c   Ma, Mingzhu ^a   Xie, Hangqiang ^a   Liu, Dunyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Daqingshan; Khondalite Belt; North China Craton; Paleoproterozoic; SHRIMP zircon dating

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; CRATON; KHONDALITE; METAMORPHISM; PROTEROZOIC; SHRIMP DATING; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; DAQING SHAN; NEI MONGGOL; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84896395386     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.05.021     Document Type: Article

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