Age of initiation of the India-Asia collision in the east-central Himalaya

Journal of Geology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 265-285

  Zhu, Bin ^a   Kidd, William S F ^a   Rowley, David B ^a,b   Currie, Brian S ^a,c   Shafique, Naseer ^a,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EOCENE; EURASIAN PLATE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDIAN PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; WORLD; XIZANG;

EID: 20444433058     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/428805     Document Type: Article

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