Role of the Nanjih Fault on the exhumation of the Pingtan-Dongshan Metamorphic Belt, SE China

Journal of the Geological Society of China

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 409-440

  Yang, Hsiao Chin ^a   Chen, Wen Shan ^a   Lo, Ching Hua ^a   Chen, Chen Hong ^b   Huang, Hui ^c   Wang, Xin ^d   Wang Lee, Chihming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c Institute of Meteorological Science of Fujian Province   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Nanjih Fault; Thermobarometry; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; FAULT; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHISM; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CHINA;

EID: 0032324026     PISSN: 10187057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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