Episodic uplift of the Tianshan Mountains since the late Oligocene constrained by magnetostratigraphy of the Jingou River section, in the southern margin of the Junggar Basin, China

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ji, Junliang ^a,b   Luo, Pan ^a   White, Paul ^a   Jiang, Hanchao ^a   Gao, Ling ^a   Dinz, Zhongli ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EPISODIC EVENT; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; OLIGOCENE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOPHYSICS; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JUNGGAR BASIN; TIEN SHAN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 55349137423     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005064     Document Type: Article

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