Eocene onset and late Miocene acceleration of Cenozoic intracontinental extension in the North Qinling range-Weihe graben: Insights from apatite fission track thermochronology

Tectonophysics

Volumn 584, Issue , 2013, Pages 281-296

  Liu, Jianhui ^a   Zhang, Peizhen ^a   Lease, Richard O ^b   Zheng, Dewen ^a   Wan, Jinglin ^a   Wang, Weitao ^a   Zhang, Huiping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extensional exhumation; Fission track thermochronology; Ordos Block; The North Qinling Range; The Weihe basin

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL EXHUMATION; ORDOS BLOCK; THE NORTH QINLING RANGE; THE WEIHE BASIN; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

GEOPHYSICS; PHYSICS;

TECTONICS;

APATITE; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; FAULTING; FISSION TRACK DATING; GRABEN; MIOCENE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CHINA; ORDOS; QINLING MOUNTAINS; WEI BASIN;

EID: 84872420332     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.01.025     Document Type: Article

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