Timing and magnitude of displacement on the Altyn Tagh fault: Constraints from stratigraphic correlation of adjoining Tarim and Qaidam basins, NW China

Terra Nova

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 86-91

  Meng, Qing Ren ^a   Hu, Jian Min ^a   Yang, Fu Zhong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b China National Petroleum Company   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DISPLACEMENT; PHANEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; TARIM BASIN;

EID: 0035198439     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2001.00320.x     Document Type: Article

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