Zircon U-Pb dating of metagabbro masses from the Liwu Group Complex within the Taka dome: Geochronological constraints on the Indosinian-Yanshanian tectonic events in western Sichuan, China

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Hong-chao Zhang, Hong-bing Zhou, Bo Yan, and Hongqi Tan conceived the presented idea and prepared the manuscript and figures. Hong-qi Tan, Chong-bo Sun, Yuezhong Wang, Yun-chuan Zhao, Wen Yao, Ren-liang Cao, and Yang Qin conducted fieldwork and collected samples. All of the authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Science and Technology Major Project of the Sichuan Institute of Geological Survey (SCIGS-CZDXM-2023003) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41603034). The authors would like to thank Dr. Hua-dong Gong for helping with the LA-ICP-MS U-Pb analyses.

Supplementary dataset

Supplementary data (Supplementary Tables) to this article can be found online at doi: 10.31035/cg2023126.

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