Deconvolving episodic age spectra from zircons of the Ladakh Batholith, northwest Indian Himalaya

Chemical Geology

Volumn 289, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 179-196

  White, L T ^a   Ahmad, T ^b,c   Ireland, T R ^a   Lister, G S ^a   Forster, M A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR   (India)

Author keywords

Episodic; Geochronology; Granite; SHRIMP; Trans Himalaya; Zircon

Indexed keywords

EPISODIC; EURASIA; GRANITOIDS; HIMALAYAS; LEUCOGRANITES; MAGMATISMS; SHRIMP; TRANS-HIMALAYA;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; MICA; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; SHELLFISH;

ZIRCON;

BATHOLITH; EMPLACEMENT; EPISODIC EVENT; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; GRANITOID; LEUCOGRANITE; MAGMATISM; SHRIMP DATING; TEMPERATURE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

HIMALAYAS; LADAKH HIMALAYAS;

EID: 80053611191     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.07.024     Document Type: Article

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