Research Catalog

Title

Tectonics of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and its adjacent foreland / by B.C. Burchfiel, Zhiliang Chen ; [with contributions from E. Wang [and others].

Publication

Boulder, Colo., USA : The Geological Society of America, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Burchfiel, B. C., 1934-
• Chen, Zhiliang.
• Geological Society of America.

Description

vii, 231 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 29 cm +

Summary

"This volume provides a summary of the geology of Eastern and Southeastern Tibet and its foreland. It covers an area of approximately 1.5 million square kilometers in 15 chapters on tectonic units that the authors recognize during 25 years of both field and laboratory study. Each chapter discusses the authors' understanding of the geology and offers interpretations of special geological relations, both local and regional, as well as currently unresolved problems of which there are many in this vast and poorly known region. Chapter 16 summarizes and interprets the preceding chapters. The volume is accompanied by CDs containing four plates: two tectonostratigraphic maps, a map of unconformities and a plate of cross sections, in both Illustrator and ArcGIS formats. This is a unique map presentation and one that the authors suggest as a model for all geological maps"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Memoir / Geological Society of America ; 210

Uniform Title

Memoir (Geological Society of America) ; 210.

Subjects

• China > Plateau of Tibet
• Tibet, Plateau of
• Geology, Structural > Tibet, Plateau of

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231).

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Yangtze unit -- 3. Transitional unit -- 4. Songpan Ganze unit -- 5. Yidun unit -- 6. Qiangtang unit -- 7. Lanping-Simao unit -- 8. Lhasa unit -- 9. Bangong Suture zone -- 10. Syntaxial unit -- 11. Tengchong unit -- 12. Baoshan unit -- 13. Changning-Menglian unit -- 14. Lin Cang unit -- 15. Ailao Shan unit -- 16. Synthesis.

Call Number

JSF 14-104

ISBN

• 9780813712109 (cloth)
• 0813712106 (cloth)

LCCN

2012031754

OCLC

811137230

Title

Tectonics of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and its adjacent foreland / by B.C. Burchfiel, Zhiliang Chen ; [with contributions from E. Wang [and others].

Imprint

Boulder, Colo., USA : The Geological Society of America, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Memoir / Geological Society of America ; 210

Memoir (Geological Society of America) ; 210.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231).

Added Author

Burchfiel, B. C., 1934-

Chen, Zhiliang.

Geological Society of America.

Research Call Number

JSF 14-104 [Text]

*WSD-8061 [DVD-ROM]