Tectonic significance of 24 Ma crustal melting in the eastern Hindu Kush, Pakistan

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 871-874

  Hildebrand, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; FELDSPAR; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LEAD ALLOYS; MICA; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; POTASSIUM ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS;

GRANITOIDS; INDIAN PLATE; LEUCOGRANITES; MESOZOIC; PAKISTAN; U-PB AGES; UPPER LIMITS; XENOTIME;

MELTING;

ACCRETION; CHRONOLOGY; MELTING; METAMORPHISM; PLUTON; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

HINDU KUSH; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84879880453     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0871:TSOMCM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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