Exhumation overrated at Nanga Parbat, northern Pakistan

Tectonophysics

Volumn 260, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 215-226

  Whittington, Alan G ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; EXHUMATION; GEOTHERMOBAROMETRY; UPLIFT;

PAKISTAN, HIMALAYAS, NANGA PARBAT-HARAMOSH MASSIF;

EID: 0030435406     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(96)00085-6     Document Type: Article

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