Reply to comment on "Displacement along the Karakoram fault, NW Himalaya, estimated from LA-ICPMS U-Pb dating of offset geologic markers" published by Leloup et al. in EPSL, 2013

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 363, Issue , 2013, Pages 246-248

  Wang, Shifeng ^a   Murphy, Michael A ^b   Phillips, Richard J ^c   Wang, Chao ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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EID: 84873720958     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.052     Document Type: Letter

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