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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macfarlane, Allison.

Sorkhabi, Rasoul B., 1961-

Quade, Jay, 1955-

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 328.

Special paper ; 328

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology--Himalaya Mountains Region.

Geology.

Geology--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Himalaya Mountains Region.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1999.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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 [and others] ; 3. Contribution to the geology of the eastern Karakoram, India / Anshu K. Sinha [and others] ; 4. Rb-Sr isotopic study of the Chilas igneous complex, Kohistan, northern Pakistan / Masumi Mikoshiba [and others] ; 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 [and others] ; 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 [and others] ; 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 [and others] ; 13.margin in southern Tibet / Guanghua Liu and Gerhard Einsele ; 7. 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 [and others] ; 18. Triangle zone in the Himalayan foreland, north Pakistan / Ishtiaq A.K. Jadoon [and others] ; 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, [2008]. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN:

0813723280

9780813723280

OCLC:

216936112

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