Active extension of the Shanxi rift, north China: Does it result from anticlockwise block rotations?

Terra Nova

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-42

  He, Jiankun ^a   Cai, Dongsheng ^b   Li, Yanxing ^c   Gong, Zaisheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CNOOC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK ROTATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIFT ZONE; VISCOELASTICITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 1542377315     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2003.00523.x     Document Type: Article

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