Diachronous evolution of sub-Himalayan piggyback basins, Nepal

Island Arc

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-113

  Kimura, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Dun valley; HFF zone; Himalayan Front; Morphogenesis; Oblique slip; Plate convergence; Quaternary; Stress field; Thrust

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE CONVERGENCE;

NEPAL;

EID: 0032997806     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1738.1999.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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