Quaternary folding of the eastern Tian Shan, northwest China

Tectonophysics

Volumn 369, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 79-101

  Fu, Bihong ^a   Lin, Aiming ^a   Kano, Ken Ichi ^a   Maruyama, Tadashi ^a   Guo, Jianming ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

India Eurasia collision; Intracontinetal mountain building; Quaternary folding; Range front migration; Satellite remote sensing; Tian Shan

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; FOLDING; OROGENIC BELT; QUATERNARY; REMOTE SENSING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA; TIAN SHAN;

EID: 0043132046     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00137-9     Document Type: Article

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