Closing history of the southern Tianshan oceanic basin, western China: An oblique collisional orogeny

Tectonophysics

Volumn 302, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 23-40

  Chen, Chuming ^a   Lu, Huafu ^a   Jia, Dong ^a   Cai, Dongsheng ^b   Wu, Shimin ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Bohai Oil Hospital   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Late Paleozoic; Oblique collision; Paleomagnetism; Tarim; Tianshan; Yili

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOZOIC;

CHINA;

EID: 0033557925     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00273-X     Document Type: Article

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