Great Jurassic thrust sheets in Beishan (North Mountains) - Gobi areas of China and southern Mongolia

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1111-1126

  Zheng, Y ^a   Zhang, Q ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Liu, R ^a   Wang, S G ^a   Zuo, G ^b   Wang, S Z ^c   Lkaasuren, B ^d   Badarch, G ^d   Badamgarav, Z ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Gansu Inst Geol and Mineral Rsrc   (China)

^c Geol Res Brigade Ningxia Hui A   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; KINEMATICS; LIMESTONE;

CORE COMPLEXES; DRAG FOLDS; GEOLOGICAL FAULTS; GROOVE LINEATIONS; KINEMATIC INDICATORS; KLIPPENS; OROGENIC BELTS; SLICKENLINES; SLIP LINEAR PLOTS; THRUST SHEETS;

TECTONICS;

JURASSIC; TECTONICS; THRUSTING;

CHINA, INNER MONGOLIA; MONGOLIA;

EID: 0030235936     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8141(96)00038-7     Document Type: Article

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