Large-scale drainage capture and surface uplift in eastern Tibet-SW China before 24 Ma inferred from sediments of the Hanoi Basin, Vietnam

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Clift, Peter D ^a,b   Blusztajn, Jerzy ^c   Duc, Nguyen Anh ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d Vietnam Petroleum Institute   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

HEADWATERS; ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; SURFACE UPLIFT;

DRAINAGE;

DRAINAGE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HEADWATER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MASS BALANCE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OLIGOCENE; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HANOI; RED RIVER [ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM; XIZANG; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 34047228883     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027772     Document Type: Article

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