Late Mesozoic compressional to extensional tectonics in the Yiwulüshan massif, NE China and its bearing on the evolution of the Yinshan-Yanshan orogenic belt. Part I: Structural analyses and geochronological constraints

Gondwana Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-77

  Lin, Wei ^a   Faure, Michel ^b   Chen, Yan ^b   Ji, Wenbin ^a   Wang, Fei ^a   Wu, Lin ^a   Charles, Nicolas ^b   Wang, Jun ^a   Wang, Qingchen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

Author keywords

North China Craton; Polyphase deformations; Structural analysis; Yinshan Yanshan fold and thrust belt; Yiwul shan massif

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; CRATON; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEODYNAMICS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MESOZOIC; OROGENIC BELT; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CHINA;

EID: 84869871544     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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