Detrital record of Mesozoic shortening in the Yanshan belt, NE China: Testing structural interpretations with basin analysis

Basin Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-272

  Cope, Tim D ^a   Shultz, Michael R ^b   Graham, S A ^c  

^a DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EMPLACEMENT; EROSION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOOTWALL; JURASSIC; OROGENY; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; TRIASSIC;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HEBEI; YAN SHAN;

EID: 34250364035     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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