Relationships between displacement and distortion in orogens: Linking the Himalayan foreland and hinterland in central Nepal

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 1116-1134

  Larson, Kyle P ^a   Godin, Laurent ^a   Price, Raymond A ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL PRESSURE; DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; HIMALAYAS; MAIN CENTRAL THRUSTS; METAMORPHIC PRESSURE; OROGENS; SHEAR ZONE;

DEFORMATION;

CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; CRUSTAL THINNING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DISPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; FOLDING; FORELAND BASIN; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; P-T CONDITIONS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC WEDGE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THRUST; TRANSITION ZONE;

HIMALAYAS; NEPAL;

EID: 77953991454     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30073.1     Document Type: Article

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