Report of 2.7 Ga zircon U-Pb age of orthogneiss in the Wenquan metamorphic complex, West Tianshan, China

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Chu Wu and Xing-wang Xu conceived of the presented idea. Chu Wu and Tao Hong carried out the experiment. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgment

This research was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41802093), the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFC0601201 and 2018YFC0604002), the Project of Xinjiang Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (2011BAB06B03-3), the Project of China Geology Survey (DD20190405 and DD20190406), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Sun Yat-sen University (2021qntd23). The authors are indebted to Prof. Xian-Hua Li, Prof. Qiu-Li Li, and Prof. Xiao-Xiao Ling for help on conducting the Cameca IMS-1280 ion microprobe.

Supplementary data

Table S1 to this article can be found online at doi: 10.31035/cg2021071.

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