Late Cretaceous/early Tertiary convergence between the Indian and Arabian plates recorded in ophiolites and related sediments

Tectonophysics

Volumn 271, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-19

  Gnos, E ^a   Immenhauser, A ^b   Peters, Tj ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Indian Ocean; K T boundary; Oman; Ophiolite; Pakistan; Sediments

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; OPHIOLITE; TERTIARY;

INDIAN OCEAN; OMAN; PAKISTAN;

EID: 0030866012     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00249-1     Document Type: Article

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