Subduction-Accretion History of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Constraints from Mongolia

Gondwana Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 825-826

  Windley, B F ^a   Badarch, G ^b   Cunningham, W D ^a   Kroner A ^c   Buchan, A C ^a   Tomurtogoo, O ^b   Salnikova, E B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 0346608319     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70610-9     Document Type: Article

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