Late Triassic sinistral shear in the East Gobi Fault Zone, Mongolia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 495, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 246-255

  Webb, Laura E ^a   Johnson, Cari L ^b   Minjin, Chuluun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c MONGOLIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Asia; Intraplate deformation; Reactivation; Shear zones; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

ASIA; INTRAPLATE DEFORMATION; REACTIVATION; SHEAR ZONE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

BUILDINGS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METALS; TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION;

ACCRETION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; PALEOZOIC; RIFTING; SHEAR ZONE; TETHYS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRANSTENSION; TRIASSIC; UPLIFT;

ASIA; MONGOLIA;

EID: 78649725644     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.09.033     Document Type: Article

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