Plate velocity exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure eclogites in the Pakistan Himalaya

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 989-992

  Parrish, Randall R ^a   Gough, Simon J ^b   Searle, Michael P ^b   Waters, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allanite; Coesite; Continental collision; Exhumation; Himalaya; Pakistan; Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism; UTh Pb dating; Zircon

Indexed keywords

COESITE; EXHUMATION; ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

GEOCHEMISTRY; PRESSURE; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZIRCON;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALLANITE; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; COESITE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; INDIAN PLATE; P-T CONDITIONS; PLATE MOTION; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TITANITE; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33750944167     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22796A.1     Document Type: Article

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