Sedimentary response to arc-continent collision, Permian, southern Mongolia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 436, Issue , 2008, Pages 363-390

  Johnson, C L ^a   Amory, J A ^b   Zinniker, D ^c   Lamb, M A ^d   Graham, S A ^e   Affolter, M ^a   Badarch, G ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Salym Petroleum Development   (Russian Federation)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Arc accretion; Collisional tectonics; Mongolia; Palynology; Sedimentary basins

Indexed keywords

SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ARC ACCRETION; COLLISIONAL; MONGOLIA; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FACIES; OROGENY; PALYNOLOGY; PERMIAN; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUTURE ZONE; TRIASSIC;

CHINA; MONGOLIA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 41449091037     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2436(16)     Document Type: Article

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