Age and composition of dikes in Southern Tibet: New constraints on the timing of east-west extension and its relationship to postcollisional volcanism

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 339-342

  Williams, Helen ^a   Turner, Simon ^a   Kelley, Simon ^a   Harris, Nigel ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ar Ar; Extension; Geodynamics; Magmatism; Tibet

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY FORCES; LITHOSPHERE;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; VOLCANOES;

LEVEES;

COLLISION ZONE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DIKE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEODYNAMICS; MIOCENE; PLATEAU; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

CHINA;

EID: 84879880015     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0339:AACODI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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