Evidence for present-day leucogranite pluton growth in Tibet

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 801-804

  Gaillard, Fabrice ^a   Scaillet, Bruno ^b   Pichavant, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UMR 7327   (France)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Crustal melting; Himalayas; Leucogranite; Tibet

Indexed keywords

FREE FLUIDS; HEAT FLOW; PLUTON GROWTH; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

ATTENUATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SURFACES; THERMOANALYSIS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; LEUCOGRANITE; MELTING; PLUTON; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 4744364532     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20577.1     Document Type: Article

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