Triassic synorogenic sedimentation in southern Mongolia: Early effects of intracontinental deformation

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 194, Issue , 2001, Pages 389-412

  Hendrix, Marc S ^a   Beck, Mary A ^a   Badarch, Gombosuren ^b   Graham, Stephan A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LAKES; RESTORATION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEPARATION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; VOLCANOES;

CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; SANDSTONE COMPOSITION; SEDIMENT DISPERSAL; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; SEDIMENTARY STRATA; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC;

SEDIMENTS;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; OROGENIC BELT; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 84871213124     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1194-0.389     Document Type: Article

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