Tectonostratigraphy and provenance of an accretionary complex within the Yarlung-Zangpo suture zone, southern Tibet: Insights into subduction-accretion processes in the Neo-Tethys

Tectonophysics

Volumn 574-575, Issue , 2012, Pages 181-192

  Cai, Fulong ^a   Ding, Lin ^a   Leary, Ryan J ^b   Wang, Houqi ^a   Xu, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Liyun ^a   Yue, Yahui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Provenance; Subduction; Tectonic evolution; Yarlung Zangpo suture zone

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; PROVENANCE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; YARLUNG-ZANGPO SUTURE ZONE;

LEAD; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SANDSTONE; SHALE; SILICATE MINERALS;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CHERT; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; MELANGE; PERMIAN; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SERPENTINITE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

INDUS-YARLUNG SUTURE ZONE;

EID: 84867230060     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.08.016     Document Type: Article

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