Photang thrust sheet: An accretionary complex structurally below the Spontang ophiolite constraining timing and tectonic environment of ophiolite obduction, Ladakh Himalaya, NW India

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 156, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1031-1044

  Corfield, Richard I ^a   Searle, Mike P ^a   Green, Owen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Himalayas; Late Cretaceous; Obduction; Ophiolite; Tethys

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; OBDUCTION; OPHIOLITE; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST;

INDIA;

EID: 0032752187     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.5.1031     Document Type: Article

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