As a result of these tectonic events, the West Kunlun orogenic belt experienced strong basement reactivation and uplift, and crustal deformation propagated toward the northern part of the Tarim Basin, ...

Angular Unconformity,Basin Boundary,Basin Development,Basin Margin,Cenozoic,Continental Margin,Continental Shelf,Early Miocene,Early Oligocene,East China Sea,End Of The Cretaceous,Focus Of This ...

Affiliations: [MOE National Laboratory Western Chinas Environmental Systems and College of Resources and Environment, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, ...

We use stratigraphic, sedimentological, and borehole data and seismic profiles from the western Tarim Basin to document its Mesozoic tectonic evolution. A nearly 60-km-wide, Triassic fold-and-thrust ...