Cretaceous to Cenozoic evolution of the northern Lhasa Terrane and the early paleogene development of peneplains at Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 70-71, Issue , 2013, Pages 79-98

  Haider, Vicky L ^a   Dunkl, István ^a   von Eynatten, Hilmar ^a   Ding, Lin ^b   Frei, Dirk ^c   Zhang, Liyun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; Peneplain; Thermochronology; Tibetan plateau; U Pb

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRABEN; GRANITOID; HORST; PALEOGENE; PENEPLAIN; TERRANE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; LHASA; NAM CO; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84879893684     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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