Spatiotemporal variation in exhumation of the Crystallines in the NW-Himalaya, India: Constraints from fission track dating analysis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 504, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Patel, R C ^a   Adlakha, Vikas ^a   Lal, Nand ^a   Singh, Paramjeet ^a   Kumar, Y ^b  

^a KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b RITES Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

Crystallines; Exhumation; Fission track data; Kumaon Himalaya; NW Himalaya

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE THRUSTING; ANNUAL RAINFALL; APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CONSTANT RATE; COOLING AGE; CRUSTAL UPLIFT; CRYSTALLINES; DATA SETS; EXHUMATION; EXHUMATION RATES; FISSION TRACK; FISSION TRACK AGES; FISSION-TRACK DATING; HIGHER HIMALAYAN CRYSTALLINE; HIMALAYAS; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; LOCAL STRUCTURE; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; OROGRAPHIC BARRIERS; ROCK TYPES; SAMPLE LOCATION; SIMILAR PATTERN; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; STRUCTURAL SETTING; SURFACE PROCESS; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; TIBETANS;

APATITE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EROSION; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; UNLOADING;

FISSION REACTIONS;

AGE DETERMINATION; COOLING; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UPLIFT;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; KUMAUN HIMALAYAS; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 79955479982     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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