Intracontinental superimposed tectonics - A case study in the Western Hills of Beijing, eastern China

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1033-1055

  Wang, Yu ^a   Zhou, Liyun ^a   Li, Jinyi ^b  

^a China University of Geosciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CONSTRAINTS; CENOZOIC; COMPRESSIONAL; CRUSTAL THINNING; DEFORMATION STAGES; DIKE INTRUSION; EASTERN CHINA; EURASIAN PLATES; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; GRANITIC PLUTONS; GRANODIORITE; INNER MONGOLIA; JURASSIC; K-FELDSPAR; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATE PALEOZOIC; MESOZOIC; NORMAL FAULTS; NORTH CHINA BASIN; NORTH CHINA CRATON; OKHOTSK; OROGENIC BELTS; PACIFIC PLATES; PALEO-ASIAN OCEAN; SERICITE; STRETCHING LINEATIONS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TAIHANG MOUNTAINS; TECTONIC BELTS; TRIASSIC; U-PB ZIRCON; WESTERN HILLS OF BEIJING;

DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LANDFORMS; LEAD; MICA; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL THINNING; DEFORMATION; FOLD; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MESOZOIC; NORMAL FAULT; OROGENIC BELT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THRUST; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; XISHAN;

MICAS;

EID: 79953799353     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30257.1     Document Type: Article

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