U-Pb Zircon Dating of Regional Deformation in the Lower Crust of the Kohistan Arc

International Geology Review

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1035-1047

  Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Kobayashi, Katsura ^b   Nakamura, Eizo ^b   Kaneko, Yoshiyuki ^c,e   Kausar, Allah Bakhsh ^d  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d Geological Survey of Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^e YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; LOWER CRUST; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KOHISTAN; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 26844509130     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.47.10.1035     Document Type: Article

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