Thermal controls on early-Tertiary, short-lived, rapid regional metamorphism in the NW Himalaya, Pakistan

Tectonophysics

Volumn 273, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 77-104

  Treloar, Peter J ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pakistan; Rates of metamorphic processes; Regional metamorphism; Tectonics; Thermal modelling

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; REGIONAL METAMOPRHISM; TERTIARY; THERMAL HISTORY;

PAKISTAN, HIMALAYAS;

EID: 0030735425     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00289-2     Document Type: Article

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