The rapid drift of the Indian tectonic plate

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7164, 2007, Pages 894-897

  Kumar, Prakash ^a   Yuan, Xiaohui ^b   Kumar, M Ravi ^a   Kind, Rainer ^b,c   Li, Xueqing ^b   Chadha, R K ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL DRIFT; CRETACEOUS; GONDWANA; LITHOSPHERE; PALEOMAGNETISM; S-WAVE; TECTONIC PLATE;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; CRETACEOUS; INDIA; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

AFRICA; ANTARCTICA; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 35348945753     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06214     Document Type: Article

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