The Gangdese retroarc thrust belt revealed

GSA Today

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 4-9

  Kapp, P ^a   DeCelles, P G ^a   Leier, A L ^a,b   Fabijanic, J M ^a,c   He, S ^a   Pullen, A ^a   Gehrels, G E ^a   Ding, L ^d  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ExxonMobil ^*

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Gangdese; Lhasa terrane; Plateau; Retroarc thrust belt; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ARC-ARC COLLISION; CLASTIC ROCK; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; MANTLE; MODELING; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEDIMENTATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST;

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

EID: 37549004401     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GSAT01707A.1     Document Type: Article

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