Metamorphic evolution of the northwest Himalaya, India: Pressure-temperature data, inverted metamorphism, and exhumation in the Kashmir, Himachal, and Garhwal Himalayas

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 328, Issue , 1999, Pages 179-198

  Manickavasagam, R M ^a   Jain, Arvind K ^a   Singh, Sandeep ^a   Asokan, A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; LANDFORMS; PILES;

MAIN CENTRAL THRUSTS; METAMORPHIC BELTS; METAMORPHIC EVENTS; METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION; NORTHWEST HIMALAYA; PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LEVELS; UNIFORM TEMPERATURE;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

COOLING; CRYSTALLINITY; DECOMPRESSION; EXHUMATION; FOLIATION; GARNET; HANGING WALL; METAMORPHIC ROCK; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE;

GARHWAL HIMALAYAS; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; UTTARAKHAND; ZANSKAR HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84871962531     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2328-0.179     Document Type: Article

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