Extensional tectonics in the Higher Himalayan Crystallines of Khumbu Himal, eastern Nepal

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 328, Issue , 1999, Pages 211-223

  Carosi, R ^a   Musumeci, G ^a   Pertusati, P C ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze della della Terra   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LEVEES; TECTONICS;

AXIAL PLANES; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HIGH GRADES; LEUCOGRANITES; MESOSCOPICS; TWO DIRECTIONS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

ALLOCHTHON; ANATEXIS; BUCKLING; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIKE; EMPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLD BELT; LEUCOGRANITE; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONICS;

HIMALAYAS; KHUMBU HIMAL; NEPAL;

EID: 84871978974     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2328-0.211     Document Type: Article

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