Detrital zircon geochronology of Carboniferous-Cretaceous strata in the Lhasa terrane, southern Tibet

Basin Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 361-378

  Leier, Andrew L ^a,b   Kapp, Paul ^a   Gehrels, George E ^a   Decelles, Peter G ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; CRETACEOUS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LHASA; XIZANG;

EID: 34548360551     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00330.x     Document Type: Article

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