Penetration of crustal melt beyond the Kunlun Fault into northern Tibet

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 330-335

  Le Pape, Florian ^a,b   Jones, Alan G ^a   Vozar, Jan ^a   Wenbo, Wei ^c  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; KUNLUN EARTHQUAKE 2001; LITHOSPHERE; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MELT INCLUSION; PLATEAU; RHEOLOGY;

CHINA; EURASIA; INDIA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84860425964     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1449     Document Type: Article

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