Detrital zircon U–Pb ages of the Murui Formation in the Zhalantun area: Implications for the Early Cretaceous tectonic setting of the southern Great Xing'an Range, NE China

• Published in: Geological journal (Chichester, England) Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 2874 - 2895
• Main Authors: Han, Xiaomeng, Zheng, Changqing, Han, Yubao, Xu, Xuechun, Shi, Lu, Xu, Jiulei, Li, Juan, Liu, Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Liverpool Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2018
• Subjects: Age; Age groups; Chronology; clastic rocks; Cretaceous; Dating; detrital zircons; Detritus; Duration; Geological time; Jurassic; Late Mesozoic; Lead; Lithic; Magma; Mesozoic; Modal analysis; Provenance; Radiometric dating; Rocks; Sediment sources; Sedimentation; Sedimentation & deposition; Sedimentology; Sediments; southern Great Xing'an Range; Stratigraphy; Subduction; Subduction (geology); Tuff; Volcanic activity; Volcanic rocks; Volcanism; Zircon; China

This paper reports U–Pb ages of detrital zircons from a series of clastic and pyroclastic rocks from the Murui Formation in the southern Great Xing'an Range (GXR), NE China, with the aim of constraining the depositional age of this poorly dated unit. These data, combined with the petrographic a...