Timing and mechanisms of Central Himalayan exhumation: Discriminating between tectonic and erosion processes

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 427-433

  Bojar, Ana Voica ^a   Fritz, Harald ^a   Nicolescu, Stefan ^b   Bregar, Martin ^a   Gupta, Ravi P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; LITHOSPHERE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECTONICS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; ZIRCON;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 33745283620     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00629.x     Document Type: Article

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