Eocene Neotethyan slab breakoff in southern Tibet inferred from the Linzizong volcanic record

Tectonophysics

Volumn 477, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 20-35

  Lee, Hao Yang ^a   Chung, Sun Lin ^a   Lo, Ching Hua ^a   Ji, Jianqing ^b   Lee, Tung Yi ^c   Qian, Qing ^d   Zhang, Qi ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

India Asia collision; Linzizong volcanism; Neotethyan subduction; Slab breakoff; Tibet

Indexed keywords

INDIA-ASIA COLLISION; LINZIZONG VOLCANISM; NEOTETHYAN SUBDUCTION; SLAB BREAKOFF; TIBET;

SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EOCENE; ISLAND ARC; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TERRANE; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; XIZANG;

EID: 70349656208     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.02.031     Document Type: Article

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