Miocene Jiali faulting and its implications for Tibetan tectonic evolution

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 185-194

  Lee, Hao Yang ^a   Chung, Sun Lin ^a   Wang, Jun Ren ^a   Wen, Da Jen ^a   Lo, Ching Hua ^a   Yang, Tsanyao F ^a   Zhang, Yuquan ^b   Xie, Yingwen ^b   Lee, Tung Yi ^c   Wu, Genyao ^d   Ji, Jianqing ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ar 40 Ar 39 dating; Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis; Karakoram Jiali fault zone; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; MIOCENE; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CHINA;

EID: 0037428166     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01040-3     Document Type: Article

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