Cenozoic deformation history of the Qaidam Basin, NW China: Results from cross-section restoration and implications for Qinghai-Tibet Plateau tectonics

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 195-210

  Zhou, Jianxun ^a   Xu, Fengyin ^b   Wang, Tiecheng ^b   Cao, Aifeng ^a   Yin, Chengming ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b PETROCHINA COMPANY LIMITED   (China)

Author keywords

Cenozoic deformation; Cross section restoration; Qaidam Basin; Qinghai Tibet Plateau

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC DEFORMATION; CROSS-SECTION RESTORATION; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU;

CATCHMENTS; DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SEISMOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI;

EID: 33344463156     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.033     Document Type: Article

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