Provenance of cretaceous sediments in the West Kunlun piedmont belt and implications for tectonic evolutionary events

The West Kunlun orogenic belt located in the northwestern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is an important record of the formation and northward extension of the plateau, but the current research mainly focuses on the tectonic activities of the Cenozoic era, and there is still considerable contro...

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Main Authors: Yang Gao, Lin Jiang, Weiyan Chen, Fujie Jiang, Hongkui Dong, Wen Zhao, Changyu Dong, Yingqi Feng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2024.1431866/full