Chapter 32 Heavy Mineral Constraints on the Provenance of Cenozoic Sediments from the Foreland Basins of Assam and Bangladesh: Erosional History of the Eastern Himalayas and the Indo-Burman Ranges

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 823-847

  Uddin, Ashraf ^a   Kumar, Pranav ^a   Sarma, Jogen N ^b   Akhter, Syed H ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DIBRUGARH UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Assam; Bengal Basin; Bengal fan; Cenozoic; Eastern Himalayan syntaxis; Himalayan orogeny; Himalayan unroofing; Himalayas; Indo Burman Ranges; provenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848846643     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58032-5     Document Type: Review

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