Sedimentary and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 175-186

  Bian, Weihua ^a,b   Hornung, Jens ^a   Liu, Zhenhua ^c   Wang, Pujun ^b   Hinderer, Matthias ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT   (China)

Author keywords

Basin evolution; Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB); Junggar Basin; Lake sediments; Lithofacies; Palaeoenvironment

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; DEPOCENTER; FACIES; FOSSIL RECORD; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOPHYSICS; ISOPACH MAP; LITHOFACIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MUDSTONE; NEOGENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOZOIC; PALYNOLOGY; PERMIAN; POLLEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOLUTION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CORE; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

CHINA; JUNGGAR BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 78149413645     PISSN: 18671594     EISSN: 18671608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12549-010-0038-9     Document Type: Review

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