The structural setting of the Song Ma region, Vietnam and the Indochina-south China plate boundary problem

Gondwana Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-33

  Findlay, R H ^a   Trinh, Phan Trong ^b  

^a Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea   (Papua New Guinea)

^b Natl Inst Sci Res and Technol   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Faulting; Palaeostress; Plate boundary; Tectonics; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

FOLDING; OBLIQUE FAULT; PLATE BOUNDARY; REVERSE FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CHINA; INDOCHINA; VIET NAM;

EID: 0010303563     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70003-4     Document Type: Article

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