Timing and distribution of tectonic rotations in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 444, Issue , 2008, Pages 73-87

  Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^a   Dai, Shuang ^b   Fang, Xiaomin ^b,c   Krijgsman, Wout ^a   Erens, Veronique ^a   Reitsma, Mariel ^a   Langereis, Cor ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Paleomagnetism; Tectonic rotations; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DEFORMATION; GEOMAGNETISM; TECTONICS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

CENOZOIC; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NORTHEASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAUX; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC ROTATIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

ROTATION;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEFORMATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; PALEOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; THRUST;

CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XINING;

EID: 75349103526     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2444(05)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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