Early Cretaceous Gangdese retroarc foreland basin evolution in the Selin Co basin, central Tibet: Evidence from sedimentology and detrital zircon geochronology

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 353, Issue , 2011, Pages 27-44

  Zhang, Qing Hai ^a,b   Ding, Lin ^a   Cai, Fu Long ^a   Xu, Xiao Xia ^a   Zhang, Li Yun ^a   Xu, Qiang ^a   Willems, Helmut ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL THICKENING; FLYSCH; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MOLASSE; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; LHASA; XIZANG;

EID: 79953099657     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP353.3     Document Type: Article

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