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 · 6 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Geological formations and processes #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

paper · doi:10.1130/b30123.1

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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