New U-Th/Pb constraints on timing of shearing and long-term slip-rate on the Karakorum fault

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Valli, Franck ^a   Leloup, Philippe Hervé ^b   Paquette, Jean Louis ^c   Arnaud, Nicolas ^d   Li, Haibing ^a,e   Tapponnier, Paul ^a   Lacassin, Robin ^a   Guillot, Stéphane ^f   Liu, Dunyi ^e   Deloule, Etienne ^g   Xu, Zhiqin ^e   Mahéo, Gweltaz ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^f UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^g CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; EOCENE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT ZONE; GRANITE; JURASSIC; KINEMATICS; METAMORPHISM; METASOMATISM; MONAZITE; OLIGOCENE; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP RATE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ASIA; EURASIA; KARAKORAM FAULT ZONE; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 58149523856     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002184     Document Type: Article

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