Tectonics and denudation adjacent to the Xianshuihe Fault, eastern Tibetan Plateau: Constraints from fission track thermochronology

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B8, 2000, Pages 19231-19251

  Xu, Ganqing ^a   Kamp, Peter J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; FAULT SLIP; FISSION TRACK DATING; TECTONICS;

CHINA; YUNNAN PROVINCE;

EID: 0034632566     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900159     Document Type: Article

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