The tectonic evolution of Asia /
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. |
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| Description: | xii, 666 p. ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | World and regional geology |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2505111 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Geodynamic Models of the Cenozoic Deformation in Asia
- 1. A lithospheric-thickening model for the Indo-Asia collision
- 2. Neotectonics of Asia: Thin-shell finite-element models with faults
- Part II. Seismotectonics
- 3. Seismotectonics of Asia: Some recent progress
- 4. Seismicity and active tectonics of the western
- 5. Tomography and seismic anisotropy of Asia and present and past tectonics
- Part III. Geological Evolution of the Himalaya-Karakoram Ranges
- 6. The Himalayan evolution Patrick Le Fort
- 7. Cooling history, erosion, exhumation and kinematics of the Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet orogenic belt
- 8. Assembly of the crystalline terranes of northwestern Himalaya and Karakoram, northwestern Pakistan
- 9. The Himalayan foreland basin
- Part IV. Tectonics of the Cenozoic Indo-Asia Collision
- 10. Cenozoic tectonics and block rotations in the Tadjik depression, central Asia
- 11. Diachronous initiation of transtension along the Ailao Shan-Red River Shear zone, Yunnan (China) and Vietnam
- 12. Cenozoic deformation, rotation, and stress patterns in eastern Tibet and western
- Part V. Mesozoic-Paleozoic Assembly of Asia
- 13. Mesozoic deformation and plutonism in the Yunmang Shan: A Chinese metamorphic core complex north of Beijing
- 14. Songpan-Ganz complex of the west Qinling Shan as a Triassic remnant ocean basin fill trapped during the Mesozoic tectonic amalgamation of China
- 15. Metamorphism and tectonics of high-pressure and ultra-high-pressure belts in the Dabie-Sulu region, eastern China
- 16. The Qinling-Dabie ultra-high-pressure collisional orogen
- 17. Mesozoic assembly of Asia: constraints from fossil floras, tectonics, and paleomagnetism
- 18. Mesozoic inversive wrench tectonics in the Far East: examples from Korea and Japan Shigeru Otoh
- 19. Paleo- and neo-tethyan events in northwestern Turkey: geologic and geochronologic constraints
- 20. A Phanerozoic palinspastic reconstruction of China
- 21. Paleotectonics of Asia: fragments of a synthesis
