Lhasa terrane in Southern Tibet came from Australia

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 727-730

  Zhu, Di Cheng ^a   Zhao, Zhi Dan ^a   Niu, Yaoling ^a,b,c   Dilek, Yildirim ^d   Mo, Xuan Xue ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CURRENT MODELS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; HF ISOTOPE; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN PLATE; LHASA TERRANE; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOZOIC; QIANGTANG; SOUTHERN TIBET; SOUTHWEST AUSTRALIA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ISOTOPES; LEAD; POPULATION STATISTICS; SILICATE MINERALS;

HAFNIUM;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; HAFNIUM; INDIAN PLATE; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALBANY [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; FRASER ISLAND; HIMALAYAS; LHASA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; QUEENSLAND; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; XIZANG;

EID: 79960576525     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31895.1     Document Type: Article

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