Oligocene-Miocene Kailas basin, southwestern Tibet: Record of postcollisional upper-plate extension in the Indus-Yarlung suture zone

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1337-1362

  DeCelles, P G ^a   Kapp, P ^a   Quade, J ^a   Gehrels, G E ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DEPOSITION; LEAD ALLOYS; LITHOLOGY; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

CHANGING DYNAMICS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; FORMING MECHANISM; MAGMATIC COMPLEXES; ORGANIC MATERIALS; TROPICAL CLIMATES; ZIRCON U-PB AGE;

TECTONICS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEPOSITION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EURASIAN PLATE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PLATE TECTONICS; PROVENANCE; RED BED; SANDSTONE; UNCONFORMITY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; INDUS-YARLUNG SUTURE ZONE; XIZANG;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 79959309648     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30258.1     Document Type: Article

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