Tectonic relationship between the course change of the Yangtze River and Indo-Asia collision

Structural Geology: New Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 49-62

  Lin, Aiming ^a   Sun, Zhiming ^b   Yang, Zhenyu ^b,c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eurasian plate; Indian plate; Indo asia collision.; Red river; Tibetan plateau; Yangtze river; Yellow river

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892107943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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