Timing of prograde metamorph ism in the Zanskar Himalaya

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 395-398

  Vance, D ^a,b   Harris, N ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; EURASIA; HEAT SOURCES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN PLATE; MAGMATISMS; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; OROGENIC EVOLUTION; P-T-T PATH; PEAK TEMPERATURES; SHEAR HEATING; SHEAR ZONE; SM-ND ISOTOPE;

ISOTOPES; MELTING; TECTONICS; BINARY ALLOYS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; SAMARIUM ALLOYS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; TIMING CIRCUITS;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; HEATING; INDIAN PLATE; MELTING; METAMORPHISM; MOUNTAIN; PROGRADE METAMORPHISM; SHEAR; SUTURE ZONE; COLLISION ZONE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENY;

HIMALAYAS; ZANSKAR HIMALAYAS; INDIA; ZANSKAR HIMALAYA;

EID: 0032883198     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0395:TOPMIT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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