Paleozoic tectonic amalgamation of the Chinese Tian Shan: Evidence from a transect along the Dushanzi-Kuqa Highway

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 194, Issue , 2001, Pages 23-46

  Zhou, Da ^a   Graham, Stephan A ^b   Chang, Edmund Z ^b   Wang, Baoyu ^c   Hacker, Bradley ^d  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of Xinjiang   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; RADIOMETRY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; COMPOSITE BLOCKS; CONTINUOUS SEQUENCES; MARINE CARBONATES; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT; RADIOMETRIC DATING; VOLCANIC ASSEMBLAGES;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ACCRETION; ANDESITE; BASEMENT ROCK; BLUESCHIST; CARBONATE; CHERT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GRANITOID; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METAMORPHISM; OPHIOLITE; PALEOZOIC; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SUBDUCTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TURBIDITE;

CHINA; DUSHANZI; KUQA; NIKOLAJEV; TARIM BLOCK; UKRAINE; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84871255742     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1194-0.23     Document Type: Article

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