Active intracontinental transpressional mountain building in the Mongolian Altai: Defining a new class of orogen

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 436-444

  Cunningham, Dickson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Altai; Central Asia; Intracontinental mountain building; Intraplate processes; Transpression

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TECTONICS; INTRACONTINENTAL MOUNTAIN BUILDING; INTRAPLATE PROCESSES; TRANSPRESSION;

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

INTRAPLATE PROCESS; OROGENY; TRANSPRESSION;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

EID: 28044466195     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.09.013     Document Type: Article

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