Meso-cenozoic heavy minerals' assemblages in the southern Junggar Basin and its implications for basin-orogen pattern

Scientia Geologica Sinica

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 648-662

  Fang, Shihu ^a   Guo, Zhaojie ^b   Jia, Chengzao ^a   Zhang, Zhicheng ^b   Wang, Xulong ^c   Wang, Meina ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

Basin orogen pattern; Heavy minerals; Meso Cenozoic; The southern Junggar Basin; The Tianshan orogen

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONGLOMERATE; EURASIAN PLATE; HEAVY MINERAL; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; OROGENY; PROVENANCE; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JUNGGAR BASIN; TARIM BASIN; TIEN SHAN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 34047188164     PISSN: 05635020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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