Extended stratigraphy, palynology and depositional environments record the initiation of the Himalayan Gyirong Basin (Neogene China)

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 77-93

  Xu, Ya Dong ^a   Zhang, Ke Xin ^a   Wang, Guo Can ^a   Jiang, Shang Song ^a   Chen, Fen Ning ^b   Xiang, Shu Yuan ^a   Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^c,d,e   Hoorn, Carina ^f  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b XI AN INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Himalayas; Neogene; Palynology; Sedimentology; Tectonism; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ALLUVIAL FAN; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CHINA; GYIRONG BASIN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

HIPPARION;

EID: 84855343389     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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