Peneplain formation in southern Tibet predates the India-Asia collision and plateau uplift

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 983-986

  Hetzel, Ralf ^a   Dunkl, István ^b   Haider, Vicky ^b   Strobl, Marcus ^a   von Eynatten, Hilmar ^b   Ding, Lin ^c   Frei, Dirk ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; COSMOGENIC; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; EROSION RATES; EXHUMATION RATES; GRANITOIDS; HIGH ELEVATION; JURASSIC; LHASA BLOCK; LONG-TERM PRESERVATION; PLATEAU UPLIFT; SOUTHERN TIBET; STREAM SEDIMENTS; THERMAL MODELING;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; APATITE; CATCHMENTS; EROSION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

TECTONICS;

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; CRUSTAL THICKENING; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; GEODYNAMICS; GRANITOID; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; METASEDIMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PENEPLAIN; PLATEAU; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

CHINA; XIZANG;

GRUS;

EID: 80053967096     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32069.1     Document Type: Article

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