Tectonics, exhumation, and drainage evolution of the eastern Himalaya since 13 Ma from detrital geochemistry and thermochronology, Kameng River Section, Arunachal Pradesh

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 523-538

  Chirouze, François ^a   Huyghe, Pascale ^a   van der Beek, Peter ^a   Chauvel, Catherine ^a   Chakraborty, Tapan ^b   Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^a   Bernet, Matthias ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER; EXHUMATION RATES; FORWARD PROPAGATION; LATERAL VARIATIONS; NORTHEASTERN INDIA; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SEDIMENT SOURCE AREAS; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS;

APATITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITS; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

SEDIMENTS;

APATITE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DRAINAGE NETWORK; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MIOCENE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; NEOGENE; PALEOCLIMATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT; ZIRCON;

ARUNACHAL PRADESH; INDIA; KAMENG RIVER;

EID: 84875093715     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30697.1     Document Type: Article

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