Subduction of Asian lithospheric mantle beneath Tibet inferred from models of continental collision

Nature

Volumn 369, Issue 6482, 1994, Pages 642-645

  Willett, Sean D ^a   Beaumont, Christopher ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROCKS; TECTONICS;

ASIAN LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; TIBET;

LITHOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; HIMALAYAN OROGENY; SUBDUCTION;

ASIA, HIMALAYAS;

EID: 0028450627     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/369642a0     Document Type: Article

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