Indosinian high-strain deformation for the Yunkaidashan tectonic belt, south China: Kinematics and 40Ar/ 39Ar geochronological constraints

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Yuejun ^a,b   Fan, Weiming ^a   Cawood, Peter A ^c   Ji, Shaocheng ^a   Peng, Touping ^a   Chen, Xinyue ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; FOLDING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; KINEMATICS; LINEATION; MESOZOIC; NORMAL FAULT; OBLIQUE FAULT; OROGENY; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THRUST; TRANSPRESSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; SOUTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 39849111045     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002099     Document Type: Article

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