Walking through geologic history across a Neogene, incised anticline of the northern margin of the Tibetan plateau: Review and synthesis

Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-42

  Rieser, Andrea Brigitte ^a   Neubauer, Franz ^a   Liu, Yongjiang ^b   Genser, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

40AR 39AR geochronology; Altyn Tagh; Provenance analysis; Qaidam Basin; Stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; INTRAMONTANE BASIN; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NEOGENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROVENANCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; UPLIFT;

ALTUN MOUNTAINS; CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77954220806     PISSN: 20727151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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