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Tectonics of the Qinling (central China): Tectonostratigraphy, geochronology, and deformation history

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2003

Authors

Ratschbacher, Lothar
Hacker, Bradley
Calvert, Andrew
Webb, Laura
Grimmer, Jens
McWilliams, Michael
Dong, Shuweng
Hu, Jun
Ireland, Trevor

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Elsevier

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The Qinling orogen preserves a record of late mid-Proterozoic to Cenozoic tectonism in central China. High-pressure metamorphism and ophiolite emplacement (Songshugou ophiolite) assembled the Yangtze craton, including the lower Qinling unit, into Rodinia

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Keywords: deformation; geochronology; Phanerozoic; structural geology; tectonic evolution; tectonostratigraphy; ultrahigh pressure metamorphism; China Ar/Ar thermochronology; Dabie Shan; Proterozoic to Cenozoic tectonics; Qinling; Structural geology; Ultrahigh-pressure orogeny

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/73997

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ANU Research Publications

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Tectonophysics

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10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00053-2

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