Tectonic correlation of Beishan and Inner Mongolia orogens and its implications for the palinspastic reconstruction of north China

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 194, Issue , 2001, Pages 101-116

  Yue, Yongjun ^a   Liou, Juhn G ^a   Graham, Stephan A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; INNER MONGOLIA; MONGOLIA; NORTH CHINA; NORTH CHINA CRATON; OROGENS; PALEOZOIC; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

BLOCK ROTATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FAULTING; OPHIOLITE; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALTUN MOUNTAINS; ALTYN TAGH FAULT ZONE; BEISHAN; CHINA; NEI MONGGOL; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; TARIM BLOCK;

EID: 84871202240     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1194-0.101     Document Type: Article

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