Diachronous uplift of the Tibetan plateau starting 40 Myr ago

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6695, 1998, Pages 769-773

  Chung, Sun Lin ^a   Lo, Ching Hua ^a   Lee, Tung Yi ^b   Zhang, Yuquan ^c   Xie, Yingwen ^c   Li, Xianhua ^c   Wang, Kuo Lung ^a   Wang, Pei Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; LITHOSPHERE; UPLIFT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHINA; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHINA;

EID: 0032552188     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29511     Document Type: Article

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