Deciphering the rate of mountain growth during topographic presteady state: An example from the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Palumbo, Luigi ^b   Hetzel, Ralf ^b   Tao, Mingxin ^c   Li, Xiaobin ^c   Guo, Jianming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DENUDATION; GROWTH RATE; MOUNTAIN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 72549108597     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002455     Document Type: Article

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