Radiolarian evidence for the stratigraphy and palaeo-oceanography of the deep-water passive margin of the Indian Plate (Karamba Formation, Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh Himalaya)

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 30, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 171-195

  Danelian, Taniel ^a   Robertson, Alastair H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coastal upwelling; Cretaceous; equatorial upwelling; Indian Plate; Indus Suture Zone; Jurassic; Ladakh Himalaya; Mesozoic; North India; oceanic currents; pala eoceanography; palaeoenvironment; passive margin; Radiolaria; radiolarites; reconstruction; stratigraphy; Tethys

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESOZOIC; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PASSIVE MARGIN; RADIOLARIA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

INDIA, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, LADAKH HIMALAYA;

EID: 0031082145     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(96)00018-7     Document Type: Article

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