Cooling history and tectonic exhumation stages of the south-central Tibetan Plateau (China): Constrained by 40Ar/39Ar and apatite fission track thermochronology

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 266-282

  Wang, Yu ^a   Zhang, Xuemin ^b   Sun, Lixin ^c   Wan, Jinglin ^b  

^a China University of Geosciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar and fission track thermochronology; Cooling histories; Mesozoic Cenozoic; South central Tibetan Plateau; Tectonic exhumation

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; COOLING; CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; INDIAN PLATE; JURASSIC; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THRUST;

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

EID: 33847024435     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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