Structure of the north Indian continental margin in the Ladakh-Zanskar Himalayas: Implications for the timing of obduction of the Spontang ophiolite, India-Asia collision and deformation events in the Himalaya

Geological Magazine

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 297-316

  Searle, Mike ^a   Corfield, Richard I ^a   Stephenson, Ben ^a   McCarron, Joe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; OBDUCTION; OPHIOLITE;

INDIA, HIMALAYAS;

EID: 0030843920     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756897006857     Document Type: Article

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