Chemical composition of the continental crust as revealed by studies in East China

Shan Gao, Ting-Chuan Luo, Zhang Benren, +3

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

EngineeringChemical CompositionEast ChinaTectonic EvolutionGeology +5

How mafic is the lower continental crust?

Shan Gao, Zhang Benren, Zhen-Ming Jin, +2

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

EngineeringContinental TectonicsGeographyLower Continental CrustGeology +3

Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic compositions of Cretaceous granitoids: constraints on tectonic framework and crustal structure of the Dabieshan ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic belt, China

Hongfei Zhang, Shan Gao, Zengqiu Zhong, +3

Chemical Geology

Earth ScienceEngineeringCrustal StructureTectonic EvolutionGeology +6

MORB-type rocks from the Paleo-Tethyan Mian-Lueyang northern ophiolite in the Qinling Mountains, central China: implications for the source of the low 206Pb/204Pb and high 143Nd/144Nd mantle component in the Indian Ocean

Jifeng Xu, Paterno R. Castillo, Xian‐Hua Li, +3

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Marine GeologyIndia-asia Collision ZoneEngineeringIndian OceanLow 206Pb/204pb +8

Silurian-Devonian provenance changes of South Qinling basins: implications for accretion of the Yangtze (South China) to the North China cratons

Shan Gao, Zhang Benren, Xiao-Ming Gu, +3

Tectonophysics

EngineeringGeomorphologyNorth China CratonsGeographySouth China +10

Geochemical and Pb-Sr-Nd isotopic compositions of granitoids from western Qinling belt: Constraints on basement nature and tectonic affinity

Hongfei Zhang, Lanlan Jin, Li Zhang, +4

Science in China Series D Earth Sciences

EngineeringTectonic AffinityTectonic EvolutionPb-sr-nd Isotopic CompositionsGeology +5

U–Pb zircon SHRIMP ages, geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic compositions of intrusive rocks from the Longshan–Tianshui area in the southeast corner of the Qilian orogenic belt, China: Constraints on petrogenesis and tectonic affinity

Hongfei Zhang, Zhang Benren, Nigel Harris, +4

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Intrusive RocksEngineeringTectonic EvolutionGeologyQilian Orogenic Belt +7

Pb isotopes of granitoids suggest Devonian accretion of Yangtze (South China) craton to North China craton

Hong-Fei Zhang, Shan Gao, Zhang Benren, +2

Geology

North ChinaEngineeringGreenstone BeltPrecambrian GeologyEast Asian Languages +13

Indian Ocean-MORB-type isotopic signature of Yushigou ophiolite in North Qilian Mountains and its implications

Qingye Hou, Zhidan Zhao, Hong-Fei Zhang, +2

Science in China Series D Earth Sciences

Marine GeologyIndia-asia Collision ZoneEngineeringNorth Qilian MountainsTectonic Evolution +8

The recognizing of ca. 1.95 Ga tectono-thermal eventin Kongling nucleus and its significance for the evolution of Yangtze Block, South China

Wenli Ling, Shan Gao, Zhang Benren, +2

Chinese Science Bulletin

EngineeringPhysicsNatural SciencesSouth ChinaTectonic Evolution +5