Mesozoic orogeniccontractional decollement and late-orogenic extensional detachment in the southern Liaoning Peninsula

Scientia Geologica Sinica

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 811-824

  Zheng, Yadong ^a   Zeng, Lingsen ^b   Li, Jianbo ^b   Ouyang, Zhixia ^b  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Contractional decollement; Extensional crenulation cleavage; Extensional detachment; Kinematic vorticity number

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; CRENULATION CLEAVAGE; DECOLLEMENT; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLIATION; MESOZOIC; OROGENY; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHANGSHAN; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JINZHOU; LIAONING; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 70449410947     PISSN: 05635020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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