Multi-stage exhumation of the NE Tarim Precambrian bedrock, NW China: Constraints from apatite fission track thermochronology in the Kuluketage area

Terra Nova

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 324-332

  Zhang, Zhiyong ^a   Zhu, Wenbin ^a   Shu, Liangshu ^a   Wan, Jinglin ^b   Yang, Wei ^a   Zheng, Bihai ^a   Su, Jinbao ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BEDROCK; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; PRECAMBRIAN; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CHINA; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 80052610230     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.01017.x     Document Type: Article

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