The Russian-Kazakh Altai orogen: An overview and main debatable issues

The paper reviews previous and recently obtained geological, stratigraphic and geochronological data on the Russian-Kazakh Altai orogen, which is located in the western Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), between the Kazakhstan and Siberian continental blocks. The Russian-Kazakh Altai is a typical P...

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Main Author: Inna Safonova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-07-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987113001606