Multiple mafic magmatic and high-grade metamorphic events revealed by zircons from meta-mafic rocks in the Daqingshan-Wulashan Complex of the Khondalite Belt, North China Craton

Precambrian Research

Volumn 246, Issue , 2014, Pages 334-357

  Liu, Pinghua ^a   Liu, Fulai ^a   Liu, Chaohui ^a   Liu, Jianhui ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Xiao, Lingling ^a   Cai, Jia ^a   Shi, Jianrong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Daqingshan Wulashan Complex; Meta mafic rocks; Multiple mafic magmatic and metamorphic events; North China Craton; Zircon

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; KHONDALITE; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; ZIRCON;

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

EID: 84898914690     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2014.02.015     Document Type: Article

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