Late Mesozoic extensional tectonics in the North China block: A crustal response to subcontinental mantle removal?

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 177, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 287-297

  Lin, Wei ^a   Wang, Qingchen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Continental extension; Cretaceous; Half grabens; Lithosphere delamination; Metamorphic core complex; North China Block; Synkinematic plutonism

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEODYNAMICS; GRABEN; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MESOZOIC; PLUTON; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LIAONING; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 33845492857     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.177.6.287     Document Type: Article

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