High strain zone in the hanging wall of the Annapurna detachment, central Nepal Himalaya

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 328, Issue , 1999, Pages 199-210

  Godin, Laurent ^a   Brown, Richard L ^a   Hanmer, Simon ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEARING;

DUCTILE SHEARING; EXTENSIONAL FAULTING; GRABEN STRUCTURES; GRAVITATIONAL SLIDING; HIGH-STRAIN ZONES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SHEAR SENSE INDICATORS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DETACHMENT FAULT; GRAVITY FIELD; METAMORPHIC ROCK; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANNAPURNA; GANDAKI; NEPAL;

EID: 84871994720     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2328-0.199     Document Type: Article

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