Two-phase growth of high topography in eastern Tibet during the Cenozoic

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 640-645

  Wang, E ^a   Kirby, E ^b,c   Furlong, K P ^b   Van Soest, M ^d   Xu, G ^e   Shi, X ^b   Kamp, P J J ^e   Hodges, K V ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; COLLISION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT; UPPER CRUST;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN BASIN;

EID: 84865729955     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1538     Document Type: Article

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