Neoproterozoic India within East Gondwana: Constraints from recent geochronologic data from Himalaya

Gondwana Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 349-356

  Yoshida, Masaru ^a,b   Upreti, Bishal N ^b  

^a Gondwana Institute for Geology and Environment   (Japan)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Detrital zircons of Himalaya; East Gondwana assembly; Himalayan basement; Himalayan geochronology; Proterozoic East Gondwana

Indexed keywords

CRATON; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; GONDWANA; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; PROTOLITH; ZIRCON;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ARABIAN SHIELD; AUSTRALIA; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; NUBIAN SHIELD; PINJARRA PLAIN; WEST ANTARCTICA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33749653472     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2006.04.011     Document Type: Article

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