Eclogites, hosted in amhibolite-facies para- and orthogneisses of the Northern Qaidam Caledonian Ultra high pressure (UHP) Terrane. In the Dulan area, the eclogite-bearing terrane extends for about 10 km from south to north, and is subdivided into a north belt and a south belt.
Ref.:
- Jingsui Yang, Shuguang Song, Zhiqin Xu, Fulai Liu, Shigenori Maruyama, Liou, J.G., Jianxin Zhang, Cailai Wu, Haibing Li, and Rendeng Shi (2001): Discovery of Coesite in the North Qaidam Caledonian ultrahigh-high pressure (UHP-HP) metamorphic belt on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Presented at the 11th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Abstract no. 3088.
- Yang Jingsui, Xu Zhiqin, Zhang Jianxin, Song Shuguang, Wu Cailai, Shi Rendeng, Li Haibing, Liou, J.G., Ernst, G., and Shigenori Maruyama (2001): An early Paleozoic Coesite-bearing HP-UHP metamorphic belt on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet plateau. UHPM Workshop at Waseda University, AD02, 290-293.
- Shuguang Song, Jingsui Yang, Liou, J.G., Cailai Wu, Rendeng Shi, and Zhiqin Xu (2003): Petrology, geochemistry and isotopic ages of eclogites from the Dulan UHPM terrane, North Qaidam, NW China. Lithos 70(3/4), 195-211.
- Mattinson, C.G., Liou, J.G., Bird, D.K., Wooden, J.L., Wu, C.L, and Yang, J.S. (2004): Zircon Geochronology of eclogite, ortho-, and paragneiss, North Qaidam UHP terrane, Northwest China. Presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Nov 7-10, 2004. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36(5), 136.
- Mattinson, C.G., Zhang, J.X., Liou, J.G., Bird, D.K., Wooden, J.L., Wu, C.L., and Yang, J.S. (2005): Geochronology and tectonic correlations, North Qaidam UHP terrane, Northwest China. Presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Oct 16-19, 2005. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 37(7), 291.
- Mattinson, C.G., Wooden, J.L., Liou, J.G., Bird, D.K., and Wu, C.L. (2006): Age and duration of eclogite-facies metamorphism, North Qaidam HP/UHP terrane, Western China. American Journal of Science 306, 683-711.
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