Evidence for northeastern Tibetan Plateau uplift between 25 and 20Ma in the sedimentary archive of the Xining Basin, Northwestern China

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 317-318, Issue , 2012, Pages 185-195

  Xiao, Guoqiao ^a,b   Guo, Zhengtang ^c   Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^d,e,f   Lu, Houyuan ^c   Wu, Naiqin ^c   Ge, Junyi ^c   Hao, Qingzhen ^c   Peng, Shuzhen ^g   Li, Fengjiang ^c   Abels, Hemmo A ^e   Zhang, Kexin ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^g Taishan College   (China)

Author keywords

Magnetostratigraphy; NE Tibet; Paleoclimate; Sedimentary provenance; Tectonic uplift; Xining Basin

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATES; SEDIMENTARY PROVENANCE; TECTONIC UPLIFT; XINING BASIN;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETITE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE; PROVENANCE; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XINING BASIN;

EID: 84255175672     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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