The Takena Formation of the Lhasa terrane, southern Tibet: The record of a Late Cretaceous retroarc foreland basin

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 31-48

  Leier, Andrew L ^a,c   DeCelles, Peter G ^a   Kapp, Paul ^a   Ding, Lin ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreland basin; Indo Asia collision; Late Cretaceous; Lhasa; Takena Formation; Tibet

Indexed keywords

FORELAND BASIN; LATE CRETACEOUS; TECTONO-SEDIMENTARY HISTORY;

LIMESTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

SEISMOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; CRETACEOUS; FORELAND BASIN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LHASA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

ORBITOLINIDAE;

EID: 33846549403     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25974.1     Document Type: Article

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