Subsidence and uplift by slab-related mantle dynamics: A driving mechanism for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic evolution of continental SE Asia?

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 355, Issue , 2011, Pages 37-51

  Clements, Benjamin ^a,b   Burgess, Peter M ^a   Hall, Robert ^a   Cottam, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DENUDATION; MANTLE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PALEOCENE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; TETHYS; UNCONFORMITY; UPLIFT;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 80051592281     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP355.3     Document Type: Article

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