Late Cenozoic tectonic activity and its significance in the Northern Junggar Basin, Northwestern China

Tectonophysics

Volumn 497, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 45-56

  Chen, Zhengle ^a   Liu, Jian ^a   Gong, Hongliang ^a   Han, Fengbin ^a   Briggs, Stephanie Marion ^b   Zheng, Enjiu ^c   Wang, Guo ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHINA NATIONAL NUCLEAR CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

Junggar Basin; Late Cenozoic tectonics of northwest China; Sandstone type uranium deposit

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TECTONICS; ARID CLIMATES; CENOZOIC; CENOZOIC TECTONICS; CONTINENTAL ENVIRONMENTS; CRUSTAL LEVELS; ELECTRONIC SPINS; FAULT GOUGE; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FILLING PROCESS; GROUND WATER MOVEMENT; JUNGGAR BASIN; LATE CENOZOIC; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; PLEISTOCENE; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

DEPOSITS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; GYPSUM; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS; URANIUM;

URANIUM DEPOSITS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FACIES ANALYSIS; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METALLOGENESIS; ORE DEPOSIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SANDSTONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST; URANIUM;

CHINA; JUNGGAR BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 78650515609     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.10.018     Document Type: Article

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