Petrology and geochronology of the Namche Barwa Complex in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, Tibet: Constraints on the origin and evolution of the north-eastern margin of the Indian Craton

Gondwana Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 123-137

  Zhang, Zeming ^a,b   Dong, Xin ^a   Santosh, M ^c   Liu, Feng ^b   Wang, Wei ^b   Yiu, Fei ^b   He, Zhenyu ^a   Shen, Kun ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Shandong Institute and Laboratory of Geological Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Eastern Himalayan syntaxis; Multiple magmatism and metamorphism; Namche Barwa Complex; Petrology and geochronology; South Tibet

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955239923     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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