Thermal and mechanical models for the structural and metamorphic evolution of the Zanskar High Himalaya

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 164, Issue , 2000, Pages 139-156

  Searle, M P ^a   Waters, D J ^a   Dransfield, M W ^a   Stephenson, B J ^a   Walker, C B ^a   Walker, J D ^a   Rex, D C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; EXHUMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; METAMORPHISM; OROGENIC BELT; P-T-T PATH; SLAB; THERMOMECHANICS; UPLIFT;

INDIA;

EID: 0034078528     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.08     Document Type: Article

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