Intraplate extension prior to continental extrusion along the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 311-314

  Chunq, Sun Lin ^a   Lee, Tung Yi ^a   Lo, Ching Hua ^a   Wang, Pei Ling ^a   Chen, Chin Yu ^a   Yem, Nguyen Trong ^b   Hoa, Tran Trong ^b   Genyao, Wu ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Natl Ctr Nat Sci/Technol   (Viet Nam)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; LITHOLOGY; RIVERS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EARLY OLIGOCENE; LEFT-LATERAL MOVEMENTS; NORTHWESTERN YUNNAN; RED RIVER SHEAR ZONE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SOUTH CHINA SEA; LATE OLIGOCENE; SHEAR MOVEMENT; WESTERN YUNNAN;

EXTRUSION;

COLLISION ZONE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; FLOOD BASALT; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PALEOGENE; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SHEAR ZONE; COLLISION; CONTINENTAL EXTRUSION; EXTENSION; TERTIARY;

AILAO SHAN-RED RIVER SHEAR ZONE; CHINA; VIET NAM; YUNNAN; VIETNAM; YUNNAN PROVINCE;

EID: 0030885331     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0311:IEPTCE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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