Exhumation history of the Karakoram fault zone mylonites: New constraints from microstructures, fluid inclusions, and 40 Ar- 39 Ar analyses

Lithosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 230-241

  Mukherjee, Barun K ^a   Sen, Koushik ^a   Sachan, Himanshu K ^a   Paul, Sudip K ^a  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DROPS; FELDSPAR; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; MINERALOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TEXTURES;

AQUEOUS INCLUSIONS; FLUID EVOLUTION; FLUID INCLUSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE DEFORMATION; KARAKORAM FAULT; LOW TEMPERATURE DEFORMATIONS; PROGRESSIVE DEFORMATION; ZONED PLAGIOCLASE;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; FLUID INCLUSION; GREENSCHIST FACIES; INCLUSION; INFILTRATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; MYLONITE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; UPLIFT;

KARAKORAM FAULT ZONE;

EID: 84870845460     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L163.1     Document Type: Article

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