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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583313903321

Autore

Mitchell Andrew

Titolo

Geological belts, plate boundaries, and mineral deposits in Myanmar / / Andrew Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Elsevier, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

0-12-803383-5

0-12-803382-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (530 pages)

Disciplina

551.8

Soggetti

Geology, Structural

Burma

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Myanmar east of the Sagaing Fault. The Shan Plateau west of the Salween -- Myanmar east of the Salween : the Sibumasu-Mong Yawng arc collision and related tin mineralization -- The Mergui group and equivalents in the Slate Belt, Phayaungtaung and the Gaoliogong Range (northeastern Myanmar) -- Paung Laung-Mawchi zone -- Granites, minor intrusions, and mineralization in the Slate Belt, Phayaungtaung, and Gaoligong Range -- Mogok metamorphic belt -- Tagaung-Myitkyina Belt and Katha-Gangaw Range -- Myanmar west of the Sagaing Fault. Popa-Loimye magmatic arc -- Central Burma depression and its petroleum occurrences / Michael F. Ridd -- The Indo-Burman ranges and the Arakan coastal lowland -- Exploration history and petroleum geology of offshore Myanmar / Andrew Racey -- Hukawng Basin, the amber mines, and the Orbitolina limestone -- Jade mines-Loimaw uplift -- Kumon Range -- Myanmar east and west of the Sagaing Fault. Chaun Kan gneiss and the India collision zone in northwestern Myanmar -- Popa-Loimye arc, correlations with Tibet, and alluvial diamonds in Myanmar -- Myanmar orogens and Flysch, potential for mineral discoveries, and Shan scarps and jade mines cross sections.