Age and isotopic constraints on magmatism along the Karakoram-Kohistan Suture Zone, NW Pakistan: Evidence for subduction and continued convergence after India-Asia collision

Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-107

  Heuberger, Stefan ^a   Schaltegger, Urs ^b,c   Burg, Jean Pierre ^a   Villa, Igor Maria ^d,e   Frank, Martin ^c,f   Dawood, Hamid ^g   Hussain, Shahid ^g   Zanchi, Andrea ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^f GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^g PAKISTAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Arc magmatism; Collision; Geochronology; Karakoram; Kohistan; Suture zone

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION; DIKE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GRANITE; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; PLUTON; SUBDUCTION; SUTURE ZONE; THRUST; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ASIA; EURASIA; KARAKORAM; KOHISTAN; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 64649094615     PISSN: 16618726     EISSN: 16618734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00015-007-1203-7     Document Type: Article

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