Upper Hunza granites (North Karakorum, Pakistan): A syn-collision bimodal plutonism of mid-Cretaceous age

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 323, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 381-388

  Debon, François ^a,b   Zimmermann, Jean Louis ^a,b   Fort, Patrick Le ^a,b  

^a Institut Dolomieu   (France)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Active margins; Cretaceous; Karakorum; Pakistan; Plutonic rocks

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; GRANITOID; PLUTONISM; SUBDUCTION;

PAKISTAN, KARAKORUM;

EID: 0030451989     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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