FOREWORD:

Foreword

Shuwen Dong, Bor-ming Jahn, Alfred Kröner, and Shu Sun
Am J Sci 2008 308: ix-xiii. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ARTICLES:

SHRIMP U-Pb and CAMECA 1280 oxygen isotope results from ancient detrital zircons in the Caozhuang quartzite, Eastern Hebei, North China Craton: Evidence for crustal reworking 3.8 Ga ago

Simon A. Wilde, John W. Valley, Noriko T. Kita, Aaron J. Cavosie, and Dunyi Liu
Am J Sci 2008 308: 185-199. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

New U-Pb and Hf isotopic data confirm Anshan as the oldest preserved segment of the North China Craton

Dunyi Liu, Simon A. Wilde, Yusheng Wan, Jiashan Wu, Hongyin Zhou, Chunyan Dong, and Xiaoyan Yin
Am J Sci 2008 308: 200-231. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Archean crustal evolution of the Jiaodong Peninsula, China, as revealed by zircon SHRIMP geochronology, elemental and Nd-isotope geochemistry

Bor-ming Jahn, Dunyi Liu, Yusheng Wan, Biao Song, and Jiashan Wu
Am J Sci 2008 308: 232-269. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SHRIMP U–Pb zircon geochronology of the Huai'an Complex: Constraints on Late Archean to Paleoproterozoic magmatic and metamorphic events in the Trans-North China Orogen

Guochun Zhao, Simon A. Wilde, Min Sun, Jinghui Guo, Alfred Kröner, Sanzhong Li, Xuping Li, and Jian Zhang
Am J Sci 2008 308: 270-303. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paleoproterozoic crustal growth in the Western Block of the North China Craton: Evidence from detrital zircon Hf and whole rock Sr-nd isotopic compositions of the Khondalites from the Jining Complex

Xiaoping Xia, Min Sun, Guochun Zhao, Fuyuan Wu, Ping Xu, Jian Zhang, and Yanhong He
Am J Sci 2008 308: 304-327. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

EPMA U-Th-Pb monazite and SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of high-pressure pelitic granulites in the Jiaobei massif of the North China Craton

Xiwen Zhou, Guochun Zhao, Chunjing Wei, Yuansheng Geng, and Min Sun
Am J Sci 2008 308: 328-350. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paleoproterozoic crustally derived carbonate-rich magmatic rocks from the Daqinshan area, North China Craton: Geological, petrographical, geochronological and geochemical (Hf, Nd, O and C) evidence

Yusheng Wan, Dunyi Liu, Zhongyuan Xu, Chunyan Dong, Zhejiu Wang, Hongying Zhou, Zhensheng Yang, Zhenghong Liu, and Jiashan Wu
Am J Sci 2008 308: 351-378. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

The significance of Paleoproterozoic zircon in carbonatite dikes associated with the Bayan Obo REE-Nb-Fe deposit

Yulong Liu, Ian S. Williams, Jiangfeng Chen, Yusheng Wan, and Weidong Sun
Am J Sci 2008 308: 379-397. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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