Tectonics of Nanga Parbat, western Himalaya: Synkinematic plutonism within the doubly vergent shear zones of a crustal-scale pop-up structure

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 999-1002

  Schneider, D A ^a   Edwards, M A ^b,e   Kidd, W S F ^b   Asif Khan, M ^c   Seeber, L ^d   Zeitler, P K ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

^d Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^e Institut fur Geologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION RATES; HIMALAYAS; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NANGA PARBAT - HARAMOSH MASSIFS; NORTHWEST HIMALAYA; PARALLEL MOTION; POP-UP STRUCTURES; SHEAR ZONE;

GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; KINEMATICS; PLUTONISM; SHEAR ZONE;

ASIA; HIMALAYAS; NANGA PARBAT;

EID: 0033368646     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0999:TONPWH>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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