Significant late Neogene east-west extension in northern Tibet

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 787-790

  Yin, An ^a   Kapp, Paul A ^a   Murphy, Michael A ^a   Manning, Craig E ^a   Harrison, T Mark ^a   Grove, Marty ^a   Lin, Ding ^b   Xi Guang, Deng ^b   Cun Ming, Wu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

ACTIVE FAULT; EARLY OLIGOCENE; FIELD MAPPING; LATE CENOZOIC; LATE NEOGENE; NORMAL FAULTS; SOUTHERN TIBET; TIBET PLATEAU;

FAULT SLIPS;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT SLIP; NEOGENE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0033397466     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0787:SLNEWE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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