New record of Bathonian-Callovian calcareous nannofossils in the eastern Karakoram block: A possible clue to understanding the dextral offset along the Karakoram Fault

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-157

  Upadhyay, Rajeev ^a   Rai, Jyòtsana ^b   Sinha, Anshu K ^c  

^a KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; JURASSIC; NANOFOSSIL; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KARAKORAM; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 17744393720     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00602.x     Document Type: Article

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