Sedimentary record of late paleozoic rift and break-up in northern gondwana: a case history from the thini chu group and tamba-kurkur formation (dolpo tethys himalaya, nepal)

Geodinamica Acta

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-56

  Sciunnach, Dario ^a   Garzanti, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Break up unconformity; Late paleozoic; Permian triassic boundary; Rift unconformity; Sandstone petrography; Sequence stratigraphy; Stratigraphy; Tethys himalaya

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342746583     PISSN: 09853111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09853111.1996.11417262     Document Type: Article

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