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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... pelitic sequence with intercalated slumped sandstone beds and one biocalcarenite yielding brachiopods and crinoids in the upper part . Strongly burrowed shelfal mudrocks bearing starfishes and abundant well - preserved crinoids occur at ...
... pelitic sequence with intercalated slumped sandstone beds and one biocalcarenite yielding brachiopods and crinoids in the upper part . Strongly burrowed shelfal mudrocks bearing starfishes and abundant well - preserved crinoids occur at ...
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... pelitic and two units can be distinguished . The lower terrigenous unit , about 200 m thick , begins with grey marls with belemnites and glaucony , passing upward to grey shales with calcareous lenses and phosphate nodules ...
... pelitic and two units can be distinguished . The lower terrigenous unit , about 200 m thick , begins with grey marls with belemnites and glaucony , passing upward to grey shales with calcareous lenses and phosphate nodules ...
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... pelitic schists , quartzites , andamphibolites . The Mugu Karnali exposure of the Lesser Himalayan sequencecontained an augen orthogneiss unit , which is similar in mineralogy and appearance to the Ulleri gneiss of centralNepal ( LeFort ...
... pelitic schists , quartzites , andamphibolites . The Mugu Karnali exposure of the Lesser Himalayan sequencecontained an augen orthogneiss unit , which is similar in mineralogy and appearance to the Ulleri gneiss of centralNepal ( LeFort ...
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amphibolite Anticline Asia assemblage basalts basement basin batholith belt biotite brachiopods carbonate Cenozoic central Nepal collision complex continental cooling ages Cretaceous crust crustal deformation deposits ductile eastern emplacement Eocene erosion evolution exhumation extensional facies folds foliation footwall Formation Garhwal garnet Garzanti Geol Geology gneisses grade granite granitoids High Himalayan Himalaya Himalayan Crystallines Indian Plate indicate Indus isotopic Karakorum Kashmir Kohistan kyanite Ladakh Late Lesser Himalaya leucogranite limestones lithosphere lower magmatic Main Central Thrust mantle margin melting metamorphism migmatites mineral Miocene muscovite mylonitic Nanga Parbat Nappe Nepal northern ophiolites orogenic overlain Pakistan pelitic Permian phase plateau plutons quartz rates region rift River rocks samples sandstones schist sedimentary sediments sequence Shan shear zone southern Tibet stratigraphy structures subduction suture zone syntaxis Tapponnier tectonic temperature Tertiary Tethyan thermal thick thickening Tibet Tibetan Treloar Triassic University uplift upper valley volcanics western Zanskar Zeitler