Evolutionary model of the Himalaya-Tibet system: Geopoem based on new modelling, geological and geophysical data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 397-409

  Chemenda, Alexander I ^a   Burg, Jean Pierre ^b   Mattauer, Maurice ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Himalayas; Physical models; Plate collision; Subduction; Tectonics; Xizang China

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EXHUMATION; HIMALAYAN OROGENY; SUBDUCTION;

ASIA; CHINA;

EID: 0034651118     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00277-0     Document Type: Article

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