Middle Miocene reorganization of deformation along the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 359-362

  Lease, Richard O ^a   Burbank, Douglas W ^a   Clark, Marin K ^b   Farley, Kenneth A ^c   Zheng, Dewen ^d   Zhang, Huiping ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; FAULT ORIENTATIONS; FAULT SYSTEM; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; NEW STRUCTURES; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RAPID GROWTH; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

KINEMATICS;

DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; KINEMATICS; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THRUST FAULT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79954572269     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31356.1     Document Type: Article

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