Resistive (dry?) lower crust in an active orogen, Nanga Parbat, northern Pakistan

Tectonophysics

Volumn 316, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 359-380

  Park, Stephen K ^a   MacKie, Randall L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GSY USA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Himalayas; Magnetotelluric methods; Nanga Parbat; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

FLUID FLOW; LOWER CRUST; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; OROGENIC BELT;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 0034731850     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00264-4     Document Type: Article

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