A late Mesozoic high plateau in eastern China: Evidence from basalt vesicular paleoaltimetry

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 2767-2777

  Xia, GuoQing ^a   Yi, HaiSheng ^a,b   Zhao, XiXi ^c   Gong, DaXing ^a   Ji, ChangJun ^a  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Oil/Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

early Cretaceous; east China Plateau; north and south China collision; paleoaltimetry; vesicular basalt

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864105783     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5169-0     Document Type: Article

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