Remnants of a Cretaceous intra-oceanic subduction system within the Yarlung-Zangbo suture (southern Tibet)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 231-244

  Aitchison, Jonathan C ^a   Badengzhu, ^b   Davis, Aileen M ^a   Liu, Jianbing ^a   Luo, Hui ^a   Malpas, John G ^a   McDermid, Isabella R C ^a   Wu, Hiyun ^b   Ziabrev, Sergei V ^a   Zhou, Mei fu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Tibetan Geological Survey   (China)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Indus Yarlung Zangbo suture zone; Island arcs; Melange; Ophiolite; Subduction zones; Tethys; Xizang China

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUTURE ZONE;

CHINA;

EID: 0034534683     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00287-9     Document Type: Article

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