Lithostratigraphy, petrography and facies analysis of the Late Cenozoic sediments in the foreland basin of the West Kunlun

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-78

  Zheng, Hongbo ^a   Huang, Xiangtong ^a   Butcher, Katherine ^b  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Facies analysis; Lithostratigraphy; Petrography; Risk perception; West Kunlun Mountains

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONGLOMERATE; FACIES ANALYSIS; FORELAND BASIN; GRAVEL; LITHOFACIES; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MIOCENE; MUDSTONE; PETROGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SILTSTONE;

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

EID: 33749509700     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.015     Document Type: Article

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