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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... mylonitic fabrics preserved in pelitic gneiss of the Greater Himalayan sequence up to a few hundred meters above the structurally highest exposures of rocks of the Lesser Himalayan sequence . Shear planes in these mylonites strike N75 ...
... mylonitic fabrics preserved in pelitic gneiss of the Greater Himalayan sequence up to a few hundred meters above the structurally highest exposures of rocks of the Lesser Himalayan sequence . Shear planes in these mylonites strike N75 ...
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... mylonitic core would result in average strain rates of 0.5 to 2 10-13 s - 1 , quite typical of today's large strike - slip faults . Greater , possibly transient , strain rates may have occurred in ultramylonitic zones within the mylonitic ...
... mylonitic core would result in average strain rates of 0.5 to 2 10-13 s - 1 , quite typical of today's large strike - slip faults . Greater , possibly transient , strain rates may have occurred in ultramylonitic zones within the mylonitic ...
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... mylonitic augen gneiss ( 500-800 m thick ) at the base . It is succeeded by the Pukhri Formation consisting of alternating slate , meta - siltstone and meta - greywacke . These rocks pass imperceptibly into the overlying Manjir ...
... mylonitic augen gneiss ( 500-800 m thick ) at the base . It is succeeded by the Pukhri Formation consisting of alternating slate , meta - siltstone and meta - greywacke . These rocks pass imperceptibly into the overlying Manjir ...
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