Foliation intersection axes preserved in garnet porphyroblasts from the Swat area, NW Himalaya: A record of successive crustal shortening directions between the Indian plate and Kohistan-Ladakh Island Arc

Tectonophysics

Volumn 509, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 14-32

  Shah, Syed Zahid ^a   Sayab, Mohammad ^a   Aerden, Domingo ^b   Khan, M Asif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

FIA; Inclusion trails; Indian plate; NW Himalayas; Porphyroblasts; Swat

Indexed keywords

FIA; HIMALAYAS; INCLUSION TRAILS; INDIAN PLATE; PORPHYROBLASTS; SWAT;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; ROTATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FOLIATION; GARNET; INDIAN PLATE; ISLAND ARC; OROGENY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; PORPHYROBLAST;

INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA; KOHISTAN; LADAKH; PAKISTAN; SWAT VALLEY;

DIPLOPODA;

EID: 79961025283     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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