Paleocurrent direction of the Late Cenozoic sedimentary sequence of the Tibetan plateau northwestern margin constrained by AMS and its tectonic implications;青藏高原西北缘晚新生代沉积岩古流向的磁化率 各向异性确定及其构造意义

Yanshi Xuebao/Acta Petrologica Sinica

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1613-1620

  Pei, JunLing ^a   Sun, ZhiMing ^a   Li, HaiBing ^b   Si, JiaLiang ^b   Pan, JiaWei ^b   Liu, Jing ^a   Liu, XueGang ^c   Zhao, Yue ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c No 8 Gold Geological Party   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility; Late Cenozoic; Paleocurrent directions; Uplift; West Kunlun Mountain

Indexed keywords

EID: 85168641066     PISSN: 10000569     EISSN: 20958927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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