Devonian sedimentary environments and provenance of the Qinling orogen: Constraints on late Paleozoic southward accretionary tectonics of the North China craton

International Geology Review

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 585-618

  Yan, Zhen ^a   Wang, Zongqi ^b   Yan, Quanren ^b   Wang, Tao ^b   Xiao, Wenjiao ^a   Li, Jiliang ^a   Han, Fanglin ^c   Chen, Junlu ^c   Yang, Yongcheng ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c Shaanxi Institute if Geological Survey   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEVONIAN; OROGENY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; QINLING MOUNTAINS; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 33746742268     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.48.7.585     Document Type: Article

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