Miocene cooling in the northern Qilian Shan, northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, revealed by apatite fission-track and vitrinite-reflectance analysis

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 939-942

  George, Annette D ^a   Marshallsea, Susan J ^a   Wyrwoll, Karl Heinz ^a   Jie, Chen ^a   Yanchou, Lu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Fission track dating; Miocene; Qilian Shan; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

FISSION-TRACKS;

COOLING; HYDROCARBONS; ROCKS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

CHINA;

EID: 84879878889     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0939:MCITNQ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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