Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: Multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites

Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 487-490

  de Sigoyer, Julia ^a   Chavagnac, Valérie ^b,c,e   Blichert Toft, Janne ^c   Villa, Igor M ^a   Luais, Béatrice ^c,e   Guillot, Stéphane ^c,e   Cosca, Michael ^d   Mascle, Georges ^c  

^a CH 2000   (Switzerland)

^b Isotopengeologie   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Inst de Mineralogie et Petrographie   (Switzerland)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eclogites; Exhumation rate; Himalaya; Indian subduction; Radiochronology

Indexed keywords

ECLOGITES; EXHUMATION RATES; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN SUBDUCTION; RADIOCHRONOLOGY;

GARNETS; HAFNIUM; LEAD; MICA; NEODYMIUM; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); RUBIDIUM; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ROCKS;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; BELT; COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKENING; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; GLAUCOPHANE; METABASALT; MUSCOVITE; OMPHACITE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SUBDUCTION;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; LADAKH;

EID: 0034431625     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<487:DTICSA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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