The vast proto-Tibetan Plateau: New constraints from Paleogene Hoh Xil Basin

Gondwana Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 434-446

  Dai, Jingen ^a   Zhao, Xixi ^b   Wang, Chengshan ^a   Zhu, Lidong ^c   Li, Yalin ^a   Finn, David ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cenozoic global cooling; Detrital zircon; Hoh Xil Basin; Paleomagnetism; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CONGLOMERATE; DEPOSITION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; FACIES ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOFACIES; PALEOGENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PROVENANCE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; HOH XIL SHAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84863877932     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.08.019     Document Type: Article

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