Himalayan tectonics explained by extrusion of a low-viscosity crustal channel coupled to focused surface denudation
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- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 414 (6865) , 738-742
- https://doi.org/10.1038/414738a
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