Late miocene-pliocene range growth in the interior of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Lithosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 420-438

  Craddock, William ^a   Kirby, Eric ^a   Zhang, Huiping ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION;

BASIN DEVELOPMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; INDO-ASIAN COLLISION ZONE; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NORTHEASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAUX; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

TOPOGRAPHY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOCURRENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84862925046     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L159.1     Document Type: Article

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