10th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, Centro Stefano Franscini (The ETH Conference Center), Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, 4-8 April, 1995: Including a Special Session on Geological Processes Related to Uplift, Exhumation and Elevation of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibet1995 - Geology |
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... crustal scale thrust fault that represents the earliest documented post - collisional crustal thickening event in southern Tibet . Numerous 40Ar / 39 Ar results from the eastern Gangdese batholith are consistent with an episode of rapid ...
... crustal scale thrust fault that represents the earliest documented post - collisional crustal thickening event in southern Tibet . Numerous 40Ar / 39 Ar results from the eastern Gangdese batholith are consistent with an episode of rapid ...
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... crustal thickening appears to be limited to doubling crustal thickness , a particular crustal thrust must have a limited life span . Crustal thickening thus induces rapid migration of deformation in time with the formation of new ...
... crustal thickening appears to be limited to doubling crustal thickness , a particular crustal thrust must have a limited life span . Crustal thickening thus induces rapid migration of deformation in time with the formation of new ...
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... crustal detachment , there was never any net crustal extension . The fault separates an upper crustal zone of mid - Eocene - Oligocene folding and thrusting in the Tethyan sediments from a lower crustal zone of extreme shortening ...
... crustal detachment , there was never any net crustal extension . The fault separates an upper crustal zone of mid - Eocene - Oligocene folding and thrusting in the Tethyan sediments from a lower crustal zone of extreme shortening ...
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