Timing of an extensional detachment during convergent orogeny: New Rb-Sr geochronological data from the Zanskar shear zone, northwestern Himalaya

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 223-226

  Inger, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

BRITTLE DETACHMENT; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHIC ROCKS; HIMALAYAN OROGEN; HIMALAYAS; NORMAL FAULTS; SHEAR ZONE; THERMAL OFFSET;

RUBIDIUM ALLOYS;

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FOOTWALL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; NORMAL FAULT; SHEAR ZONE; THINNING; DETACHMENT; EXTENSION;

HIMALAYAS; ZANSKAR HIMALAYAS; ASIA;

EID: 0031845147     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0223:TOAEDD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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