Some problems on granites and vertical growth of the continental crust in the eastern Tianshan Mountains, NW China

Acta Petrologica Sinica

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1103-1120

  Gu, LianXing ^a   Zhang, ZunZhong ^a   Wu, ChangZhi ^a   Wang, YinXi ^a   Tang, JunHua ^a   Wang, ChuanSheng ^a   Xi, AiHua ^a   Zheng, YuanChuan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Continental growth; Ductile shear zone; Intraplate magmatism; Intraplating; Post collisional granite; Tianshan; Underplating

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; PETROGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

COLLISIONAL; DUCTILE SHEAR ZONE; INTRAPLATING; MAGMATISMS; TIANSHAN; UNDERPLATING;

GRANITE;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; GNEISS; GRANITE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; METASOMATISM; SHEAR ZONE;

ASIA; EURASIA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84977977865     PISSN: 10000569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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