Experimental evidence for the dynamics of the formation of the Yinggehai basin, NW South China Sea

Tectonophysics

Volumn 372, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 41-58

  Sun, Zhen ^a   Zhou, Di ^a   Zhong, Zhihong ^b   Zeng, Zuoxun ^c   Wu, Shimin ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Analogue modeling; Depocenter migration; Dynamics of basin formation; Rifting structure; Yinggehai basin

Indexed keywords

ANALOG MODEL; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOCENTER; RIFTING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY;

SOUTH CHINA SEA; YINGGEHAI BASIN;

EID: 0141782335     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00230-0     Document Type: Article

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