Himalaya and Tibet : mountain roots to mountain tops / edited by Allison Macfarlane, Rasoul B. Sorkhabi, and Jay Quade.

Other author Macfarlane, Allison.
Other author Sorkhabi, Rasoul B., 1961-
Other author Quade, Jay, 1955-
Format Book
Publication InfoBoulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1999.
Descriptioniv, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSpecial paper ; 328
Special papers (Geological Society of America) 328. ^A20279
Incomplete content Himalaya and Tibet: mountain roots to mountain tops / Rasoul B. Sorkhabi and Allison Macfarlane -- Part I. Tibet, Trans-Himalaya, and Tethys. 1. Lithospheric structure and geodynamic model of the Golmud-Ejin transect in northern Tibet / Gao Rui, Cheng Xiangzhou and Wu Gongjian ; 2. Mantle diapir and inward intracontinental subduction: a discussion on the mechanism of uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau / Xu Zhiqin ... [et al.] ; 3. Contribution to the geology of the eastern Karakoram, India / Anshu K. Sinha ... [et al.] ; 4. Rb-Sr isotopic study of the Chilas igneous complex, Kohistan, northern Pakistan / Masumi Mikoshiba ... [et al.] ; 5. Parh group basalts of northeastern Balochistan, Pakistan: precursors to the Deccan traps / Wazir Khan, George R. McCormick, and Mark K. Reagan ; 6. Jurassic sedimentary facies and paleogeography of the former Indian passive margin in southern Tibet / Guanghua Liu and Gerhard Einsele ; 7. Biostratigraphy and biogeography of Himalayan Cambrian trilobites / Nigel C. Hughes and Peter A. Jell -- Part II. High Himalayan crystalline zone. 8. Contrasting metamorphic and geochronologic evolution along the Himalayan belt / Stephane Guillot ... [et al.] ; 9. Contrasting anatectic styles at Nanga Parbat, northern Pakistan / Alan G. Whittington, Nigel B.W. Harris and Robert W.H. Butler ; 16. Late Miocene tectonic evolution of the Karakorum-Nanga Parbat contact zone (northern Pakistan) / Arnauld Pecher and Patrick Le Fort ; 11. Geologic map of the Indus syntaxis and surrounding area, northwest Himalaya, Pakistan / Joseph A. DiPietro ... [et al.] ; 12. Metamorphic evolution of the northwest Himalaya, India: pressure-temperature data, inverted metamorphism, and exhumation in the Kashmir, Himachal, and Garhwal Himalayas / R.M. Manickavasagam ... [et al.] ; 13. High strain zone in the hanging wall of the Annapurna detachment, central Nepal Himalaya / Laurent Godin, Richard L. Brown, and Simon Hanmer ; 14. Extensional tectonics in the higher Himalayan crystallines of Khumbu Himal, eastern Nepal / R. Carosi, G. Musumeci, and P.C. Pertusati ; 15. Lesser Himalayan crystalline nappes of Nepal: problems of their origin / Bishal Nath Upreti and Patrick Le Fort -- Part III. Himalayan foreland: sediments, structures, and landforms. 16. Evolution of a Neogene fluvial system in a Himalayan foreland basin, India / Rohtash Kumar, Sumit K. Ghosh, and Satish J. Sangode ; 17. Stratigraphic and structural framework of Himalayan foothills, northern Pakistan / Kevin R. Pogue ... [et al.] ; 18. Triangle zone in the Himalayan foreland, north Pakistan / Ishtiaq A.K. Jadoon ... [et al.] ; 19. Frontal structural geometries and detachment tectonics of the northeastern Karachi arc, southern Kirthar range, Pakistan / Daniel D. Schelling ; 20. Large-scale erosional processes at the southern flank of the Ganesh Himal range, central Nepal / C.F. Uhlir and J.-M. Schramm ; 21. Search for buckling of the southwest Indian coast related to Himalayan collision / Rebecca Bendick and Roger Bilham.
General noteOne colored map on folded leaf in pocket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98043984
ISBN0813723280

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