Provenance of the upper cretaceous-eocene deep-water sandstones in Sangdanlin, Southern Tibet: Constraints on the timing of initial India-Asia collision

Journal of Geology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 293-309

  Wang, Jiangang ^a   Hu, Xiumian ^a   Jansa, Luba ^b,c   Huang, Zhicheng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; DIACHRONISM; EOCENE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 79955532538     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659145     Document Type: Article

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