Episodicity and rates of thrust-sheet motion in the Himalayas (Western Nepal)

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 82, 2005, Pages 91-114

  Mugnier, Jean Louis ^a   Huyghe, Pascale ^a   Leturmy, Pascale ^a,c   Jouanne, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPISODIC EVENT; FLUID PRESSURE; GEODESY; GPS; HOLOCENE; KINEMATICS; MASS TRANSPORT; MIOCENE; THRUST FAULT;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 34748812422     PISSN: 02718529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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