The Neogene Xiyu Formation, a diachronous prograding gravel wedge at front of the Tianshan: Climatic and tectonic implications

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 298-310

  Charreau, Julien ^a,b   Gumiaux, Charles ^c   Avouac, Jean Philippe ^a   Augier, Romain ^c   Chen, Yan ^c   Barrier, Laurie ^d   Gilder, Stuart ^e   Dominguez, Stéphane ^f   Charles, Nicolas ^c   Wang, Qingchen ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

gravel wedge progradation; magnetostratigraphy; shortening rates; Tianshan; Xiyu Formation

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ASIA; CLIMATIC EVENTS; JUNGGAR BASIN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEO GENES; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE; PROGRADATION; SHORTENING RATES; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS; THICK PILES; TIANSHAN; XIYU FORMATION;

GRAVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONGLOMERATE; DIACHRONISM; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEOGENE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PROGRADATION; UPLIFT;

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

EID: 70350223831     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.07.035     Document Type: Article

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