Cenozoic rifting and volcanism in eastern China: A mantle dynamic link to the Indo-Asian collision?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 393, Issue 1-4 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 29-42

  Liu, Mian ^a,c   Cui, Xiaojun ^a   Liu, Futian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eastern China; Indo Asian collision; Tibetan plateau; Tomography; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIFTING; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

EID: 8744269979     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.07.029     Document Type: Article

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