Oroclinal bending versus regional significant clockwise rotation in the Himalayan arc - Constraints from secondary pyrrhotite remanences

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 383, Issue , 2004, Pages 73-85

  Schill, E ^a   Appel, E ^b   Crouzet, C ^b   Gautam, P ^c   Wehland, F ^b   Staiger, M ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Himalaya; Paleomagnetism; Pyrrhotite; Rotation; Secondary magnetization

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; GEOMAGNETISM; IRON ORES; MAGNETIZATION; REMANENCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CLOCKWISE ROTATION; HIMALAYAS; MAIN CENTRAL THRUSTS; PALEOMAGNETISM; PYRRHOTITE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; WESTERN HIMALAYAS;

ROTATION;

BENDING; CURIE POINT; DEFORMATION; DUPLEX; EXTRUSION; HANGING WALL; INDIAN PLATE; LEUCOGRANITE; METAMORPHISM; OLIGOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE; PYRRHOTITE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; THRUST;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 77957301276     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2383-3(2004)383[73:OBVRSC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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