Extraordinary transport and mixing of sediment across Himalayan central Gondwana during the Cambrian-Ordovician

2010/05/20 by Paul M. Myrow, P. M. Myrow, Nigel C. Hughes +13 · 299 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Archaeology #Computer science #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geological formations and processes #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Gondwana #History #Library science #Ordovician #Paleontology #Stratigraphy #Tectonics

paper · doi:10.1130/b30123.1

published in Geological Society of America Bulletin 122(9-10), 1660-1670 (Geological Society of America)

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Abstract

Detrital zircon samples from Cambrian and Lower to Middle Ordovician strata were taken across and along the strike of the Himalaya from Pakistan to Bhutan (~2000 km). By sampling rocks from one time interval for nearly the entire length of an orogen, and

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