Stable isotope evidence for topographic growth and basin segmentation: Implications for the evolution of the NE Tibetan Plateau

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 168-185

  Hough, Brian G ^a   Garzione, Carmala N ^a   Wang, Zhicai ^b   Lease, Richard O ^c   Burbank, Douglas W ^c   Yuan, Daoyang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN HYDROLOGY; FILL MATERIALS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LATE MIOCENE; LOCAL CLIMATE; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; MOUNTAIN RANGES; NEO GENES; STABLE ISOTOPES; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

RAIN; TOPOGRAPHY;

ISOTOPES;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BASIN FILL; DEFORMATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; MOUNTAIN REGION; NEOGENE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79251479721     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30090.1     Document Type: Article

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