Emeishan Basalt Ar-Ar overprint ages define several tectonic events that affected the western Yangtze platform in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 163-178

  Ali, Jason R ^a   Lo, Ching hua ^b   Thompson, Gary M ^a   Song, Xieyan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China amalgamation; Collision; Longmen Shan; Tectonic resetting

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; FLOOD BASALT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; OVERPRINTING; PERMIAN; RESETTING; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 1942473112     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-9120(03)00072-5     Document Type: Article

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