Discovery of Paleogene marine stratum along the southern side of Yarlung-Zangbo suture zone and its implications in tectonics

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 647-661

  Li, Guobiao ^a   Wan, Xiaoqiao ^a   Liu, Wencan ^a   Liang, Dingyi ^a   Hyesu, Yun ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gyangze; Initional collision; Jiachala formation; Microfossils; Paleogene marine strata; Underfilled peripheral foreland basin

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEPOSITS; LITHOGRAPHY; STRESSES;

JIACHALA FORMATION; MICROFOSSILS; PALEOGENE MARINE STRATA; UNDERFILLED PERIPHERAL FORELAND BASIN;

TECTONICS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; FORELAND BASIN; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOGENE; SUTURE ZONE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

APECTODINIUM; CANNINGIA (DINOFLAGELLATE); CHLAMYDOPHORA; CYMATIOSPHAERA; DINOPHYCEAE; PALAEOPERIDINIUM PYROPHORUM;

EID: 27844595886     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03yd0253     Document Type: Review

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