Assembly of the Pamirs: Age and origin of magmatic belts from the southern Tien Shan to the southern Pamirs and their relation to Tibet

Tectonics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Schwab, Martina ^a,b   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^b   Siebel, Wolfgang ^a   McWilliams, Michael ^c   Minaev, Vladislav ^d   Lutkov, Valery ^d   Chen, Fokun ^a   Stanek, Klaus ^b   Nelson, Bruce ^e   Frisch, Wolfgang ^a   Wooden, Joseph L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tadzhikistan   (Tajikistan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics; Geochemistry; Geochronology; Magmatism; Pamirs; Tibet

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATISM; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONICS; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; PAMIRS; WORLD;

EID: 8844276863     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003TC001583     Document Type: Article

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