Uplift of Tibet: From eclogites to granulites - Implications for the Andean Plateau and the Variscan belt

Tectonophysics

Volumn 273, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 57-76

  Le Pichon, Xavier ^a,b   Henry, Pierre ^a   Goffé, Bruno ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Ecologites; Granulites; Tibet; Uplift

Indexed keywords

CRUST; DENSITY; ECLOGITE; GRANULITE; UPLIFT;

CHINA, TIBETAN PLATEAU; EUROPE, VARISCAN BELT; SOUTH AMERICA, ANDES;

EID: 0030819710     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00288-0     Document Type: Article

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