Variable shortening rates in the eastern Himalayan thrust belt, Bhutan: Insights from multiple thermochronologic and geochronologic data sets tied to kinematic reconstructions

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Long, Sean P ^a   McQuarrie, Nadine ^b   Tobgay, Tobgay ^c   Coutand, Isabelle ^d   Cooper, Frances J ^e   Reiners, Peter W ^f   Wartho, Jo Anne ^e   Hodges, Kip V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; MICA;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; BALANCED CROSS SECTIONS; COOLING AGE; DATA SETS; DEFORMATION TEMPERATURES; DISCRETE STRUCTURE; DURING CONSTRUCTION; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; ESTIMATED ERROR; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; MAIN CENTRAL THRUSTS; STRAIN PARTITIONING; TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; THRUST BELTS; U-PB ZIRCON; WHITE MICA;

KINEMATICS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DATA SET; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; OROGENY; STRAIN PARTITIONING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

BHUTAN; CHINA; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SHILLONG PLATEAU;

EID: 84867507166     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012TC003155     Document Type: Article

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