Late Cenozoic evolution of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from 40Ar/39Ar and (U-th)/He thermochronology

Tectonics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Kirby, Eric ^a   Reiners, Peter W ^a   Krol, Michael A ^a   Whipple, Kelin X ^a   Hodges, Kip V ^a   Farley, Kenneth A ^a   Tang, Wenqing ^a   Chen, Zhiliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Denudation; Relief; Thermochronology; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CENOZOIC; DENUDATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0036098815     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000TC001246     Document Type: Article

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