The uplift history of the Haiyuan-Liupan Shan region northeast of the present Tibetan plateau: Integrated constraint from Stratigraphy and thermochronology

Journal of Geology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 372-393

  Lin, Xiubin ^a,b,c   Chen, Hanlin ^a,c   Wyrwoll, Karl Heinz ^b   Batt, Geoffrey E ^b   Liao, Lin ^a,c   Xiao, Jun ^a,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Structural Research Center of Oil and Gas Bearing Basin   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; EROSION; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MIOCENE; QUATERNARY; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRESS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

CHINA; HAIYUAN; LIUPAN MOUNTAINS; NINGXIA HUIZU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79959898401     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660190     Document Type: Article

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