Signatures of mountain building: Detrital zircon U/Pb ages from northeastern Tibet

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 239-242

  Lease, Richard O ^a   Burbank, Douglas W ^a   Gehrels, George E ^b   Wang, Zhicai ^c   Yuan, Daoyang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon; Miocene; Provenance; Tibet; U Pb; Unroofing

Indexed keywords

DETRITAL ZIRCON; MIOCENE; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; REGIONAL SOURCE TERRANES;

GEOCHEMISTRY; LANDFORMS; LEAD; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM; ZIRCON;

GEOLOGY;

MIOCENE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRANE; UNROOFING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

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

EID: 33947305447     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23057A.1     Document Type: Article

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