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dc.contributor.authorLi, Zheng-Xiang
dc.contributor.authorKinny, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:10:28Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:10:28Z
dc.date.created2009-03-05T00:56:47Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.citationLi, Zheng-Xiang and Kinny, Peter. 2002. Grenvillian continental collision in South China: new SHRIMP U-Pb zircon results and implications for the configuration of Rodinia. Geology. 30 (2): pp. 163-166.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29132
dc.identifier.doi10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0163:GCCISC>2.0.CO;2
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The timing of continental collision between the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks of southChina is an issue that bears on the accretion of Asia, as well as on the assembly and configuration of the Neoproterozoic supercontinent Rodinia. We report in this paper SHRIMP (sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe) evidence that suggests a Grenvillian continental collision in south China, including (1) evidence for 1.3-1.0 Ga metamorphismon both sides of the Sibao orogen between the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks and (2) sedimentary provenance of possible foreland-basin deposits on the Yangtze side of the orogen that were derived from the Cathaysia block and the Sibao orogen during the continental collision. The occurrence of ca. 1430 Ma granodiorites in southern Cathaysia, along with ca. 1800 Ma basement and Archean protoliths in northern Cathaysia, makes Cathaysia a possible western extension of the Mojave province in southwestern Laurentia. Together with regional data, we suggest that the Sibao orogen could be one of the Grenvillian sutures at the center of Rodinia assembly that brought Australia, Yangtze, and Cathaysia-Laurentia together by ca. 1000 Ma.

dc.publisherGeological Society of America
dc.subjectgeochronology
dc.subjectRodinia
dc.subjectSouth China Block
dc.subjectGrenvillian
dc.subjectorogeny
dc.titleGrenvillian continental collision in South China: new SHRIMP U-Pb zircon results and implications for the configuration of Rodinia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume30
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage163
dcterms.source.endPage166
dcterms.source.issn00917613
dcterms.source.titleGeology
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Copyright © 2002 by Geological Society of America

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curtin.facultyDepartment of Applied Geology
curtin.facultyFaculty of Science and Engineering
curtin.facultyThe Western Australian School of Mines


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