The Pangong granulites of the Karakoram Fault (Western Tibet): Vertical extrusion within a lithosphere-scale fault?;Les granulites de Pangong dans la faille du Karakorum (Tibet occidental): Extrusion verticale dans une faille trans-lithosphérique?

Location Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 363-370

  Rolland, Yann ^a   Pêcher, Arnaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Extrusion; Granulite; HT metamorphism; Ladakh; Strike slip fault; Tibet

Indexed keywords

EID: 24044458904     PISSN: 09668349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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