Oceanic-style subduction controls late Cenozoic deformation of the Northern Pamir orogen

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 363, Issue , 2013, Pages 204-218

  Sobel, Edward R ^a   Chen, Jie ^b   Schoenbohm, Lindsay M ^c   Thiede, Rasmus ^a   Stockli, Daniel F ^d   Sudo, Masafumi ^a   Strecker, Manfred R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Intracontinental deformation; Pamir; Subduction accretion; Subduction erosion; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; PAMIR; SUBDUCTION ACCRETION; SUBDUCTION EROSION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

DEFORMATION; EROSION; TECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ACCRETION; CENOZOIC; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; OROGENY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

PAMIRS;

EID: 84873818214     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.009     Document Type: Article

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