Contrasting anatectic styles at Nanga Parbat, northern Pakistan

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 328, Issue , 1999, Pages 129-144

  Whittington, Alan G ^a   Harris, Nigel B W ^b   Butler, Robert W H ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; MELTING; MICA;

DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; DUCTILE SHEAR ZONE; EXHUMATION RATES; FLUID MIGRATION; HIGH FIELD STRENGTH ELEMENTS; HIMALAYAN OROGEN; NANGA PARBAT - HARAMOSH MASSIFS; TRACE ELEMENT MODELING;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANATEXIS; BAROMETRY; GRANITE; MIOCENE; PLUTONIC ROCK; TRACE ELEMENT;

GILGIT-BALTISTAN; HIMALAYAS; NANGA PARBAT;

EID: 84871955311     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2328-0.129     Document Type: Article

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