Jurassic sedimentary facies and paleogeography of the former Indian passive margin in southern Tibet

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 328, Issue , 1999, Pages 75-108

  Liu, Guanghua ^a   Einsele, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; DEPOSITION; LIME; LIMESTONE; SEDIMENTS;

ESTUARINE SYSTEMS; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SHALLOW WATER DEPTHS; SHALLOW WATER SEDIMENTS; SILICICLASTIC ROCKS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AGGRADATION; CALLOVIAN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; INDIAN PLATE; LITHOFACIES; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SHALLOW WATER; SUBMARINE FAN; TITHONIAN; WATER DEPTH;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 12344329788     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2328-0.75     Document Type: Article

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