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The Through the combined use of magnetic-polarity stratigraphy with fission-track dating of volcanic ashes, a new chronology, spanning 4 Myr, has been developed for the intermontane basin of Kashmir in the northwestern Himalaya.
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Burbank, D., Johnson, G. Intermontane-basin development in the past 4 Myr in the north-west Himalaya. Nature 298, 432–436 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/298432a0
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