Exhumation history of the higher Himalayan Crystalline along Dhauliganga-Goriganga river valleys, NW India: New constraints from fission track analysis

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Patel, R C ^a   Carter, A ^b  

^a KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT ZONE; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOOTWALL; HANGING WALL; THRUST FAULT; ZIRCON;

ASIA; DHAULI VALLEY; EURASIA; GORI VALLEY; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 70350155021     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002373     Document Type: Article

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