Early Oligocene partial melting in the Main Central Thrust Zone (Arun valley, eastern Nepal Himalaya)

Lithos

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 287-301

  Groppo, Chiara ^a   Rubatto, Daniela ^b   Rolfo, Franco ^a,c   Lombardo, Bruno ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Himalaya; Main Central Thrust Zone; Monazite zircon geochronology; Partial melting; Pseudosections

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ANATEXIS; DECOMPRESSION; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANULITE FACIES; LOW GRADE METAMORPHISM; MIGMATIZATION; MONAZITE; OLIGOCENE; ORTHOGNEISS; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; PARTIAL MELTING; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; ZIRCON;

HIMALAYAS; MAIN CENTRAL THRUST ZONE; NEPAL;

EID: 77954763085     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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