Pulsed Miocene range growth in northeastern Tibet: Insights from Xunhua Basin magnetostratigraphy and provenance

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 657-677

  Lease, Richard O ^a,d   Burbank, Douglas W ^a   Hough, Brian ^b   Wang, Zhicai ^c   Yuan, Daoyang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; CENOZOIC; COARSE SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; DEFORMATION FRONT; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY MIOCENE; FORELAND BASIN; INTEGRATED ANALYSIS; INTERVENING PERIOD; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TECTONIC CHANGES; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORMATION; EROSION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; ZIRCON; ZIRCON DEPOSITS;

TECTONICS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; BASIN ANALYSIS; EROSION; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; FORELAND BASIN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TERRANE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84860836863     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30524.1     Document Type: Article

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