Building the Pamirs: The view from the underside

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 849-852

  Ducea, Mihai N ^a   Lutkov, Valery ^b   Minaev, Vladislav T ^b   Hacker, Bradley ^c   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^d   Luffi, Peter ^e   Schwab, Martina ^f   Gehrels, George E ^a   McWilliams, Michael ^g   Vervoort, Jeffrey ^h   Metcalf, James ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tadzhikistan   (Tajikistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental collision; Orogenic plateaus; Pamir region; Partial melting; Subduction

Indexed keywords

PETROLOGY; RADIOMETRY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; MIOCENE; OROGENY; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROLOGY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; XENOLITH;

PAMIR MOUNTAINS; TAJIKISTAN;

EID: 0242581665     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G19707.1     Document Type: Article

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