Exhumation during crustal folding in the Namche-Barwa syntaxis

Terra Nova

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 53-56

  Burg, Jean Pierre ^a   Davy, Philippe ^b   Nievergelt, Peter ^c   Oberli, Felix ^a   Seward, Diane ^a   Diao, Zhizhong ^c   Meier, Martin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; FOLDING; SUTURE ZONE;

PAKISTAN, HIMALAYAS, NAMCHE BARWA PEAK;

EID: 0031451106     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.1997.tb00001.x     Document Type: Article

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