Cooling and exhumation of the Trans-Himalayan Ladakh batholith as constrained by fission track apatite and zircon ages

Current Science

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 490-496

  Kumar, Rajeev ^a   Lal, Nand ^b   Singh, Sandeep ^a   Jain, A K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Fission track dating; Ladakh Batholith

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947158219     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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