Using isotopic and chronologic data to fingerprint strata: Challenges and benefits of variable sources to tectonic interpretations, the Paro Formation, Bhutan Himalaya

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Tobgay, T ^a   Long, S ^a   McQuarrie, N ^a   Ducea, M N ^b   Gehrels, G ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; TECTONICS;

CAMBRIANS; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; DETRITAL ZIRCON; FIELD MAPPING; HIMALAYAS; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOPROTEROZOIC;

NEODYMIUM;

CAMBRIAN; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; NEODYMIUM; ORDOVICIAN; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

BHUTAN; HIMALAYAS; LESSER HIMALAYAS;

EID: 79251589051     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002637     Document Type: Article

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