Miocene-aged extension within the main mantle thrust zone, Pakistan Himalaya
During the early stages of the Himalayan orogeny, rocks of the Kohistan Island Arc were thrust southward onto the Indian Plate along the Main Mantle Thrust (MMT), a N-dipping crustal-scale fault zone developed within the NW Himalaya. During thrusting the basement gneisses and granitic lithologies of...
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Kingston University
1997
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360086 |