Late Miocene-Pliocene deceleration of dextral slip between Pamir and Tarim: Implications for Pamir orogenesis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 304, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 369-378

  Sobel, Edward R ^a   Schoenbohm, Lindsay M ^b   Chen, Jie ^c   Thiede, Rasmus ^a   Stockli, Daniel F ^d   Sudo, Masafumi ^a   Strecker, Manfred R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracontinental subduction; Neotectonics; Pamir; Strike slip fault; Thermochronology; Tien Shan

Indexed keywords

INTRACONTINENTAL SUBDUCTION; NEOTECTONICS; PAMIR; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TIEN SHAN;

APATITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS;

MICA;

APATITE; CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; DATA SET; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; NEOTECTONICS; PLIOCENE; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THRUST FAULT;

PAMIRS; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 79953067122     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.02.012     Document Type: Article

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