Recycling oceanic crust for continental crustal growth: Sr–Nd–Hf isotope evidence from granitoids in the western Junggar region, NW China

The juvenile component of accretionary orogenic belts has been declining since the Archean. As a result, there is often controversy regarding the contribution of oceanic basalts to Phanerozoic crustal growth, as in the case of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). Here we report on three groups of...

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Main Authors: Tang, G., Wang, Q., Wyman, D., Li, Zheng-Xiang, Xu, Y., Zhao, Z.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21975