Rapid early Miocene exhumation of the Ladakh batholith, western Himalaya

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1049-1052

  Kirstein, Linda A ^a   Sinclair, Hugh ^a   Stuart, Finlay M ^b   Dobson, Katherine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(U Th) He; Fission track dating; Himalaya; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; FISSION-TRACK DATING; LADAKH BATHOLITH; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CHANNEL FLOW; COOLING; EROSION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BATHOLITH; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; SUTURE ZONE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; LADAKH HIMALAYAS;

EID: 33845583636     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22857A.1     Document Type: Article

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