Uplift, exhumation, and deformation in the Chinese Tian Shan

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 194, Issue , 2001, Pages 71-99

  Dumitru, Trevor A ^a   Zhou, Da ^a,e   Chang, Edmund Z ^a   Graham, Stephan A ^a   Hendrix, Marc S ^b   Sobel, Edward R ^c   Carroll, Alan R ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; FISSION REACTIONS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; COMPOSITE BLOCKS; CONTINENTAL BLOCKS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; FISSION TRACK AGES; INDIAN SUBCONTINENTS; SEDIMENT SOURCE AREAS; STRUCTURAL TRENDS;

COOLING;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISLAND ARC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PERMIAN; UPLIFT;

TIEN SHAN;

EID: 33845773917     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1194-0.71     Document Type: Article

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