Magnetostratigraphic and rock magnetic study of the Neogene upper Yaha section, Kuche Depression (Tarim Basin): Implications to formation of the Xiyu conglomerate formation, NW China

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Huang, Baochun ^a   Piper, John D A ^b   Qiao, Qingqing ^a   Wang, Hailong ^a   Zhang, Chunxia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; CONGLOMERATE; DEPOSITION; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; UPLIFT;

CHINA; KUQA DEPRESSION; TARIM BASIN; TIEN SHAN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 76149134075     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006175     Document Type: Article

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