Changes of late Mesozoic tectonic regimes around the Ordos Basin (North China) and their geodynamic implications

Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1254-1276

  Zhang, Yueqiao ^a,b   Shi, Wei ^a,b   Dong, Shuwen ^b  

^a Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Early Cretaceous extension; Late Jurassic multi directional compressions; Late Mesozoic; North China; Ordos Basin; Tectonic stress regime

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; COLLISION ZONE; CRATON; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THINNING; GEODYNAMICS; JURASSIC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARGINAL BASIN; OROGENY; PACIFIC PLATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRIASSIC; UPLIFT;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; ORDOS BASIN; SOUTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84863249131     PISSN: 10009515     EISSN: 17556724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2011.00586.x     Document Type: Article

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