Contrasting Oligocene and Miocene thermal histories from the hanging wall and footwall of the South Tibetan detachment in the central Himalaya from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, Marsyandi Valley, central Nepal

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 726-740

  Coleman, Margaret E ^a,b   Hodges, Kip V ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; DETACHMENT FAULT; HIMALAYAN OROGENY; METAMORPHISM; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

MARSYANDI VALLEY; NEPAL;

LANDFORMS; LEAD; MICA; MONAZITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICATES;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EPIDOTE AMPHIBOLITE; IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; PEAK TEMPERATURES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRUCTURAL LEVELS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

EID: 0032418163     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98TC02777     Document Type: Article

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