Contrasting metamorphic and geochronologic evolution along the Himalayan belt

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 328, Issue , 1999, Pages 117-128

  Guillot, Stéphane ^a   Cosca, Michael ^b   Allemand, Pascal ^c   Le Fort, Patrick ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICA;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; COUNTER CLOCKWISE ROTATION; DIFFERENT PRESSURES; HIGH-PRESSURE ROCKS; HIMALAYAN OROGEN; INTERNAL ZONES; LOW PRESSURES; NAPPE STACKING;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ANATEXIS; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; COOLING; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HIMALAYAN OROGENY; INDIAN PLATE; METAMORPHIC ROCK; SUBDUCTION;

INDIA;

EID: 84872001244     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2328-0.117     Document Type: Article

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