Tectonic Evolution of the Himalayas and Tibet: Proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting Held on 11 and 12 November 1987 |
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Barazangi Basin batholith belt beneath the Himalaya beneath Tibet Besham boundary Cathaysian Chen collision continental Coward Cretaceous crust crustal thickness Debon deformation depth Earth planet earthquakes emplacement Eocene Eurasia faunas figure flexural folds Gansser Geol Geology geophys gneisses granite gravity anomalies Greater Himalaya High Himalaya Himalaya Hirn imbrication Indian Plate Indus isograds isostatic Karakoram km s¹ Kohistan Kunlun Ladakh Lamayuru late Lesser Himalaya leucogranites Lhasa Lhasa Terrane lithosphere Lond lower Lyon-Caen magmatism margin melting metamorphic Moho Molnar nappe Nepal northern northward oceanic ophiolite palaeomagnetic Palaeozoic Permian phase plutons Qiangtang Terrane Qilian region rocks S-wave Sapin Searle sedimentary sediments seismic sequence shear zones Siwalik South China Block southern Tibet strain rate structure subduction suggest Suture Suture Zone Tapponnier tectonic Terrane thermal thickening thrust Tibet Tibetan Plateau Transhimalaya underthrusting uplift upper Vaikrita Valdiya velocity volcanics wide-angle reflections Windley Zanskar Zanskar shelf