Garnet pyroxenite in the Namjagbarwa Group-complex in the eastern Himalayan tectonic syntaxis, Tibet, China: Evidence for subduction of the Indian continent beneath the Eurasian plate at 80-100 km depth

Geological Bulletin of China

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Zhang, Ze Ming ^a   Zheng, Lai Lin ^b   Wang, Jin Li ^a   Zhao, Xu Dong ^a   Shi, Chao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Continental deep subduction; Eastern Himalayan tectonic syntaxis; Eclogite facies metamorphism; Garnet pyroxenite

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849139155     PISSN: 16712552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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