Continental crustal growth processes recorded in the Gangdese Batholith, southern Tibet

DC Zhu, Q Wang, RF Weinberg… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The continental crust in the overriding plate of the India-Asia collision zone in southern Tibet
is characterized by an overthickened layer of felsic composition with an underlying granulite …

Himalayan leucogranites: A review of geochemical and isotopic characteristics, timing of formation, genesis, and rare metal mineralization

HW Cao, QM Pei, M Santosh, GM Li, LK Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
As prototypes of crust-derived remelted S-type granite, Himalayan leucogranites have
considerable relevance in crustal evolution and associated metallogeny. However, given …

[PDF][PDF] Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses

P Kapp, PG DeCelles - American Journal of Science, 2019 - ajsonline.org
The Himalayan-Tibetan orogen culminated during the Cenozoic India--Asia collision, but its
geological framework and initial growth were fundamentally the result of multiple, previous …

Highly fractionated Himalayan leucogranites and associated rare-metal mineralization

FY Wu, XC Liu, ZC Liu, RC Wang, L **e, JM Wang… - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
The formation of the Himalaya was associated with the exhumation of high-grade
metamorphosed rocks of the Higher Himalayan sequence (HHS) complex, which underwent …

Gangdese magmatism in southern Tibet and India–Asia convergence since 120 Ma

DC Zhu, Q Wang, SL Chung, PA Cawood… - Geological Society …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
A compilation of 290 zircon U–Pb ages of intrusive rocks indicates that the Gangdese
Batholith in southern Tibet was emplaced from c. 210 Ma to c. 10 Ma. Two intense magmatic …

Raising the Gangdese mountains in southern Tibet

DC Zhu, Q Wang, PA Cawood… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The surface uplift of mountain belts is in large part controlled by the effects of crustal
thickening and mantle dynamic processes (eg, lithospheric delamination or slab breakoff) …

Processes of initial collision and suturing between India and Asia

L Ding, S Maksatbek, FL Cai, HQ Wang… - Science China Earth …, 2017 - Springer
The initial collision between Indian and Asian continents marked the starting point for
transformation of land-sea thermal contrast, uplift of the Tibet-Himalaya orogen, and climate …

Genesis of the Cuonadong tin polymetallic deposit in the Tethyan Himalaya: Evidence from geology, geochronology, fluid inclusions and multiple isotopes

HW Cao, GM Li, RQ Zhang, YH Zhang, LK Zhang… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Cuonadong deposit is located in southern Tibet and represents the first large-scale tin
polymetallic deposit in the Himalayan region. Sn-(W) skarn mineralization is spatially related …

[HTML][HTML] Triple-stage India-Asia collision involving arc-continent collision and subsequent two-stage continent-continent collision

J Yuan, C Deng, Z Yang, W Krijgsman, H Qin… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The enigmatic geodynamic processes involved in the India-Asia collision shape our
understanding of uplift and deformation of the Tibetan Plateau and the subsequent changes …

Quantitatively tracking the elevation of the Tibetan Plateau since the cretaceous: Insights from whole‐rock Sr/Y and La/Yb ratios

F Hu, F Wu, JB Chapman, MN Ducea… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Crustal thickness, elevation, and Sr/Y and (La/Yb) N of magmatic rocks are strongly
correlated for subduction‐related and collision‐related mountain belts. We quantitatively …