Zircon U-Pb age evidence of the Mesoarchean (2.9-3.2 Ga) crustal remnant in the Southern Dabie Orogen, South China

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Da-liang Xu, Lian-hong Peng and Xin Deng conceived of the presented idea. Da-liang Xu and Chao-ran Liu 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 work was financially supported by the Open Fund of the Research Center for Petrogenesis and Mineralization of Granitoid Rocks (PMGR202014) and the project of the China Geological Survey (DD20190050).

Supplementary dataset

Supplementary data (Supplementary Tables S1-S2) to this article can be found online at doi: 10.31035/cg2022056.

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