The process and mechanism of the rise of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Tectonophysics

Volumn 260, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 45-53

  Li, Tingdong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL THICKENING; ISOSTASY; PALAEOGENE; SUBDUCTION; UPLIFT;

CHINA, QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU;

EID: 0030439922     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(96)00075-3     Document Type: Article

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