Crustal melt granites and migmatites along the Himalaya: Melt source, segregation, transport and granite emplacement mechanisms

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 219-233

  Searle, M P ^a   Cottle, J M ^a,b   Streule, M J ^a   Waters, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel flow; crustal melting; granite emplacement; Himalaya; leucogranite; migmatite; shear zones

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; CRYSTALLIZATION; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GRANITE; INDIAN PLATE; LEUCOGRANITE; METAMORPHISM; MIGMATITE; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; PARTIAL MELTING; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; SILL; SOURCE ROCK; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; XIZANG;

EID: 77957235958     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S175569100901617X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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