Early tertiary Gonjo basin, eastern Tibet: Sedimentary and structural record of the early history of India-Asia collision

Geosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 713-735

  Studnicki Gizbert, Christopher ^a   Burchfiel, B C ^b   Li, Z ^c   Chen, Z ^c  

^a QUEST UNIVERSITY CANADA   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Continental deformation; Contractional basin; Crustal shortening; Early tertiary; Growth faults; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION; FAULT PROPAGATION; GROWTH FAULT; REVERSE FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SYNCLINE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GONJO BASIN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 49649111442     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00136.1     Document Type: Article

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