THE AILAO SHAN RED RIVER METAMORPHIC BELT - TERTIARY LEFT-LATERAL SHEAR BETWEEN INDOCHINA AND SOUTH CHINA

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TAPPONNIER, P
LACASSIN, R
LELOUP, PH
SCHARER, U
ZHONG, DL
WU, HW
LIU, XH
JI, SC
ZHANG, LS
ZHONG, JY
机构
[1] ACAD SINICA,INST GEOL,BEIJING 100011,PEOPLES R CHINA
[2] UNIV QUEBEC,DEPT SCI TERRE,MONTREAL H3C 3P8,QUEBEC,CANADA
[3] UNIV QUEBEC,GEOTOP,MONTREAL H3C 3P8,QUEBEC,CANADA
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10.1038/343431a0
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The relative importance of thickening and strike-slip extrusion in continental collision is debated. Ductile shear in the Ailao Shan/Diancang Shan metamorphic belt, along the Red River in Yunnan, China, yields outstanding evidence of the latter process. For > 500 km, mylonites in this narrow northwest-southeast belt show horizontal lineations on steep, northwest-striking foliation planes, and left-lateral kinematic indicators. U-Pb radiometric ages of ∼23 Myr imply that strike-slip movement along this shear zone occurred in the Oligo-Miocene. The strain observed suggests that collision of India with Asia displaced Indochina at least 500km southeastwards relative to South China. © 1990 Nature Publishing Group.
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