Extension in the graben systems around the Ordos (China), and its contribution to the extrusion tectonics of south China with respect to Gobi-Mongolia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 285, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 41-75

  Zhang, Yue Qiao ^a   Mercier, Jacques Louis ^a   Vergély, Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Extensional tectonics; Extrusion tectonics; North China; Ordos; South China

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRABEN; TECTONICS;

CHINA;

EID: 0031858580     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00170-4     Document Type: Article

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