Late Triassic sedimentary records in the northern Tethyan Himalaya: Tectonic link with Greater India

The Upper Triassic flysch sediments (Nieru Formation and Langjiexue Group) exposed in the Eastern Tethyan Himalayan Sequence are crucial for unraveling the controversial paleogeography and paleotectonics of the Himalayan orogen. This work reports new detrital zircon U-Pb ages and whole-rock geochemi...

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Main Authors: Huawen Cao, Yong Huang, Guangming Li, Linkui Zhang, Jianyang Wu, Lei Dong, Zuowen Dai, Liu Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-01-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S167498711730052X