Mantle exhumation along the Tirich Mir Fault Zone, NW Pakistan: Pre-mid-Cretaceous accretion of the Karakoram terrane to the Asian margin

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 170, Issue , 2000, Pages 237-252

  Zanchi, A ^a   Poli, S ^b   Fumagalli, P ^b   Gaetani, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EXHUMATION; HIMALAYAN OROGENY; MANTLE;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 0034036992     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.13     Document Type: Article

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