Detrital modes of sandstones and their implications for basin-mountain evolution between the Kuqa Depression and South Tianshan Mountains

Scientia Geologica Sinica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 465-478

  Li, Shuangjian ^a   Wang, Qingchen ^a   Li, Zhong ^a   Wang, Daoxuan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Basin mountain evolution; Detrital modes; The Kuqa Depression; The South Tianshan Mountains; Weathering index

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; MESOZOIC; SANDSTONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; WEATHERING;

ASIA; EURASIA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 33749323633     PISSN: 05635020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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