Preliminary investigation into the complexities of the Ailao Shan and Day Nui Con Voi shear zones of SE Yunnan and Vietnam

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 444, Issue , 2008, Pages 45-58

  Burchfiel, B C ^a   Chen, L ^b   Wang, E ^c   Swanson, E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Yunnan Institute of Geological Sci   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ailao Shan shear zone; China; Day Nui Con Voi shear zone; Extrusion tectonics; Vietnam; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; FAULT SLIPS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); METAMORPHIC ROCKS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHINA; EXTRUSION TECTONICS; SHEAR ZONE; VIET NAM; YUNNAN;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXTRUSION; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; HANGING WALL; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MYLONITE; MYLONITIZATION; NEOGENE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PLUTON; PLUTONISM; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSPRESSION; TRIASSIC;

AILAO MOUNTAINS; CHINA; VIET NAM; YUNNAN;

EID: 75249089150     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2444(03)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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