Quaternary sediments in the Dien Bien Phu fault zone, NW Vietnam: A record of young tectonic processes in the light of OSL-SAR dating results

Geomorphology

Volumn 60, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 269-302

  Zuchiewicz, Witold ^a   Cuong, Nguyen Quoc ^b   Bluszcz, Andrzej ^c   Michalik, Marek ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Active faulting; Dien Bien Phu fault; Morphotectonics; Optical luminescence dating; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; DATING METHOD; FAULTING; QUATERNARY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRACE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 2442647738     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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