Timing of Tibetan uplift constrained by analysis of volcanic rocks

Nature

Volumn 364, Issue 6432, 1993, Pages 50-54

  Turner, Simon ^a   Hawkesworth, Chris ^a   Liu, Jiaqi ^b   Rogers, Nick ^a   Kelley, Simon ^a   Van Calsteren, Peter ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; GEOCHEMISTRY; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; MANTLE SOURCE; UPLIFT; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CHINA, TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0027503704     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/364050a0     Document Type: Article

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