Cooling history of the Gongga batholith: Implications for the Xianshuihe Fault and Miocene kinematics of SE Tibet

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 465, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-15

  Zhang, Yuan Ze ^a   Replumaz, Anne ^b   Leloup, Philippe Hervé ^c   Wang, Guo Can ^a   Bernet, Matthias ^b   van der Beek, Peter ^b   Paquette, Jean Louis ^d   Chevalier, Marie Luce ^e  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

continental tectonics; Gongga batholith; landscape evolution; low temperature thermochronology; Tibetan Plateau; Xianshuihe fault

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; GONGGA BATHOLITH; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TIBETAN PLATEAU; XIANSHUIHE FAULT;

TEMPERATURE;

BATHOLITH; COOLING; EXHUMATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MIOCENE; TECTONICS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CHINA; GONGGA MOUNTAIN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN; XIANSHUIHE FAULT ZONE; XIZANG;

EID: 85014237080     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.02.025     Document Type: Article

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