Transitions among Mariana-, Japan-, Cordillera- and Alaska-type arc systems and their final juxtapositions leading to accretionary and collisional orogenesis

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 338, Issue , 2010, Pages 35-53

  Xiao, Wenjiao ^a   Han, Chunming ^a   Yuan, Chao ^b   Sun, Min ^c   Zhao, Guochun ^c   Shan, Yehua ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; OROGENY; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING; STRIKE (GEOLOGY); TECTONIC PLATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 79952069137     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP338.3     Document Type: Article

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