Normal faulting in central Tibet since at least 13.5 Myr ago

Nature

Volumn 412, Issue 6847, 2001, Pages 628-632

  Blisniuk, Peter M ^a   Hacker, Bradley R ^b   Glodny, Johannes ^c   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^d   Bi, Siwen ^e   Wu, Zhenhan ^e   McWilliams, Michael O ^f   Calvert, Andy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOPHYSICS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; TECTONICS;

PLATEAUS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; MINERAL; RUBIDIUM; SILICON DIOXIDE; STRONTIUM;

CRUSTAL THINNING; DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ENERGY; GEOLOGY; MINERALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA;

EID: 0035833435     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35088045     Document Type: Article

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