A Late Eocene‐Oligocene Through‐Flowing River Between the Upper Yangtze and South China Sea

Abstract We test the hypothesis of a major Paleogene river draining the SE Tibetan Plateau and the central modern Yangtze Basin that then flowed south to the South China Sea. We test this model using U‐Pb dated detrital zircon grains preserved in Paleogene sedimentary rocks in northern Vietnam and S...

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Main Authors: Peter D. Clift, Andrew Carter, Anna Wysocka, Long Van Hoang, Hongbo Zheng, Nikki Neubeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-07-01
Series:Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009046