Stratigraphic response and mammalian dispersal during initial India-Asia collision: Evidence from the Ghazij Formation, Balochistan, Pakistan

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1097-1100

  Clyde, William C ^a   Khan, Intizar H ^a,b   Gingerich, Philip D ^c  

^a University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b Geological Survey of Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Collision; India; Mammals; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; METAMORPHISM; ASIA; COLLISION; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE; INDIA; INDIAN SUBCONTINENTS; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARIES; PALEOMAGNETISM;

GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL WARMING; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; GEOMAGNETISM;

CLIMATOLOGY; MAMMALS;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EOCENE; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; BIOTA; GLOBAL CLIMATE; METAMORPHISM; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOGENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; SEDIMENTATION; SUTURE ZONE;

ASIA; BALUCHISTAN; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA; INDIA;

EID: 1642521968     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G19956.1     Document Type: Article

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