Exhumation history of the Micangshan-Hannan Dome since Cretaceous and its tectonic significance: Evidences from Apatite Fission Track analysis

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 920-930

  Tian, Yun Tao ^a   Zhu, Chuan Qing ^a   Xu, Ming ^a   Rao, Song ^a   Kohn, Barry P ^b   Hu, Sheng Biao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fission track; Hannan dome; Micangshan Fold Thrust belt; Qinling; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BACKARC BASIN; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; FISSION TRACK DATING; OROGENY; SEISMIC SURVEY; SUBDUCTION; THRUST;

CHINA; INDOCHINA; KOREA; LHASA; MICANG MOUNTAINS; MONGOLIA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SIBERIA; XIZANG;

EID: 78650046383     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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