Synorogenic extension: Quantitative constraints on the age and displacement of the Zanskar shear zone (northwest Himalaya)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 3-3, 1999, Pages 364-374

  Dezes P J ^a   Vannay, J C ^a   Steck, A ^a   Bussy, F ^a,b   Cosca, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; GARNETS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA;

CONTINUOUS PROCESS; EQUILIBRATION DEPTHS; FINITE DISPLACEMENT; GEOMETRICAL MODELING; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; NORTHWEST HIMALAYA; STRUCTURAL LEVELS; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENY; SHEAR ZONE;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; ZANSKAR;

EID: 0006100490     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0364:SEQCOT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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