Was the Indosinian orogeny a Triassic mountain building or a thermotectonic reactivation event?

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 83-93

  Carter, Andrew ^a   Clift, Peter D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Indosinian; Orogenesis; Palaeogeography; South China; Subduction; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; OROGENY; PACIFIC PLATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION; TRIASSIC;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDOCHINA; SOUTH CHINA BLOCK; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 38949178032     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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