Differential salt tectonic deformation and segmentation of the Kuqa foreland fold-thrust belt, Tarim basin, northwest China

Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-320

  Tang, Liangjie ^a   Jingchang, Li ^b   Yu, Yixin ^a   Wang, Qinghua ^c   Yang, Wenjing ^c   Xie, Huiwen ^c   Chen, Shuping ^a   Peng, Gengxin ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TARIM OILFIELD COMPANY   (China)

Author keywords

Differential structural deformation; Kuqa foreland fold thrust belt; Salt tectonics; Segmentation; Tarim basin

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; SALT TECTONICS; SEGMENTATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 33745019162     PISSN: 10009515     EISSN: 17556724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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