supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No 41372061 and 40821002)
This study uses illite crystallinity,chlorite crystallinity,illite polytypes,the b0 cell-dimension of K-white mica,clay mineral assemblages and mineral geothermo-geobarometers to investigate the overprint of diagenesi...
supported by the Chinese Major State Basic Research Program (Grants Nos.2009CB825007,2007CB411307);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40730314,40821002, 41230207,41390441,41190075);the Molengraaff Fund to MCS
The Chinese Tianshan belt of the southern Altaids has undergone a complicated geological evolution. Different theories have been proposed to explain its evolution and these are still hotly debated. The major subductio...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2009CB825007);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40825007and40821002);the Chinese Geological Survey Projects(1212011121258)
A trondhjemitic body occurs in the Aoyougou area,the western part of the North Qilian orogen.It is geochemically characterized by high SiO 2,Na 2 O (high Na/K),elevated Sr/Y and (La/Yb) N,positive Sr anomaly,relativel...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40730314, 41002019, and 40821002);the National Basic Research Program of China (2009CB825007);the National Science Foundation for Postdoctoral Scientists of China
Coesite is an indicator mineral of ultra-high-pressure metamorphism. Since coesite was reported in the Habutengsu Valley, we have also found it in eclogite and schist from the Atantayi Valley in the southwestern Tians...
supported by NationaI Natural Science Foundation of China(No.40821002);major project of China Petrochemical Corporation(Sinopec Group) for fundamental research(ContinentaI Tectonics and Prospects of Marine Origin Hydrocarbon Resource in The Middle-Upper Yangtze Region, Southern China,No.YPH08001-01)
A large-scale pop-up structure occurs at the front of the northern Dabashan thrust belt (NDTB), bound by the NNE-dipping Chengkou fault to the south, and the SSW-dipping Gaoqiao fault to the north. The pop-up struct...
supported by Projects of Ministry of Land and Resources "Deep Probing Technology and Experimental Research" (Grant No. SinoProbe-04-02);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 90714008, 40972039, 40821002);Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Granulite xenoliths are found in the early Mesozoic diorite intrusions from Chifeng and Ningcheng areas, eastern Inner Mongolia. The granulites are granoblastic and weakly gneissic with mineral assemblage of hypersthe...