Diagnostic features and processes in the construction and evolution of Oman-, Zagros-, Himalayan-, Karakoram-, and Tibetan-type orogenic belts

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 200, Issue , 2007, Pages 41-61

  Searle, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Magmatism; Metamorphism; Orogenesis; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; MICA; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CONTINENT-CONTINENT COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MAGMATISMS; METAMORPHISM; OROGENESIS; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SUBCONTINENTAL MANTLE;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; EARTH; EMPLACEMENT; FACIES; FOLDING; GRANITE; GREENSCHIST FACIES; INDIAN PLATE; KYANITE; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; OPHIOLITE; OROGENY; SILLIMANITE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONICS; TETHYS;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; CHINA; HIMALAYAS; IRAN; OMAN; OMAN MOUNTAINS; XIZANG; ZAGROS;

EID: 74849136855     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.1200(04)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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