Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the central Asian orogenic belt

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Xiao, Wenjiao ^a   Windley, Brian F ^b   Hao, Jie ^a   Zhai, Minggou ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion; Inner Mongolia; Paleo Asian ocean; Permian; Solonker suture

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; COLLISION ZONE; OROGENIC BELT; PERMIAN; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 1842532899     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001484     Document Type: Article

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