Sedimentology, sedimentary petrology, and paleoecology of the monsoon-driven, fluvio-lacustrine Zhada Basin, SW-Tibet

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 222, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 27-41

  Kempf, Oliver ^a,b   Blisniuk, Peter M ^c   Wang, Shifeng ^d   Fang, Xiaomin ^d   Wrozyna, Claudia ^a   Schwalb, Antje ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo Geologische Landesaufnahme ^*  (Switzerland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Fluvio lacustrine sedimentology; Monsoon; Ostracodes; Sedimentary petrology; Tibetan Plateau; Zhada Basin

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CYCLICITY; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MONSOON; OSTRACOD; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG; ZHADA BASIN;

OSTRACODA;

EID: 70449535529     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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