Exhumation history of eclogites from the Tso-Morari Crystalline Complex in Eastern Ladakh: Mineralogical and fluid inclusion constraints

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 181-190

  Sachan, H K ^a   Bodnar, R J ^a,b   Islam, R ^a   Szabo, Cs ^a,b   Law, R D ^a,b  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eclogite; Fluid inclusion; Ladakh Himalaya; Mineral geothermobarometry; Tso Morari

Indexed keywords

ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; FLUID INCLUSION; METAMORPHISM; MINERALOGY;

INDIA;

EID: 0033006764     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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