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Month: November 2017

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Geologic overview of the Jinggu Basin, Yunnan

by Alex Farnsworth on Wednesday November 15th, 2017

Part of the recent fieldwork involved studying the sediments mapped as mid Miocene in the Jinggu Basin (23.5°N, 100.7°E). The geological evolution of Yunnan and the southeastern margin of Tibet is complex but appears to include Cenozoic extrusion of the Indo-China block as a result of the India-Asia collision. As much as 350 km of …

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