Himalayan leucogranites and migmatites: nature, timing and duration of anatexis

RF Weinberg - Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread anatexis was a regional response to the evolution of the Himalayan‐Tibetan
Orogen that occurred some 30 Ma after collision between Asia and India. This paper reviews …

Metamorphism and tectonic evolution of the Lhasa terrane, Central Tibet

ZM Zhang, X Dong, M Santosh, GC Zhao - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The Lhasa terrane in southern Tibet is composed of Precambrian crystalline basement,
Paleozoic to Mesozoic sedimentary strata and Paleozoic to Cenozoic magmatic rocks. This …

[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 …

Timescales of crustal melting in the Higher Himalayan Crystallines (Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya) inferred from trace element-constrained monazite and zircon …

D Rubatto, S Chakraborty, S Dasgupta - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2013 - Springer
The petrology and timing of crustal melting has been investigated in the migmatites of the
Higher Himalayan Crystalline (HHC) exposed in Sikkim, India. The metapelites underwent …

When the continental crust melts

EW Sawyer, B Cesare, M Brown - Elements, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Partial melting of the continental crust has long been of interest to petrologists as a small-
scale phenomenon. Mineral assemblages in the cores of old, eroded mountain chains that …

Spodumene pegmatites from the Pusila pluton in the higher Himalaya, South Tibet: Lithium mineralization in a highly fractionated leucogranite batholith

C Liu, RC Wang, FY Wu, L **e, XC Liu, XK Li, L Yang… - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
The Himalayan leucogranite belt is evaluated as a prospect for rare-metal mineralization.
The Pusila pluton is located 44 km northwest of Mount Everest, and consists of two-mica …

Early Eocene (c. 50 Ma) collision of the Indian and Asian continents: Constraints from the North Himalayan metamorphic rocks, southeastern Tibet

H Ding, Z Zhang, X Dong, Z Tian, H **ang, H Mu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite several decades of investigations, the nature and timing of the India–Asia collision
remain debated. In the western Himalaya, the leading edge of the Indian continent was …

Mineralogy, petrology and PT conditions of the spodumene pegmatites and surrounding meta-sediments in Lhozhag, eastern Himalaya

JM Wang, KS Hou, L Yang, XC Liu, RC Wang, GM Li… - Lithos, 2023 - Elsevier
Several giant industrial-grade rare-metal deposits have been discovered in the Himalaya
most recently. However, the mechanism of how rare-metals mineralization formed in the …

Partial melting in the Higher Himalayan Crystallines of Eastern Nepal: the effect of decompression and implications for the 'Channel Flow'model

C Groppo, F Rolfo, A Indares - Journal of Petrology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Partial melting of deep continental crust may occur during either prograde heating or
decompression. Although the effect of temperature on crustal melting has been widely …

Tectonometamorphic discontinuities within the Greater Himalayan Sequence in Western Nepal (Central Himalaya): Insights on the exhumation of crystalline rocks

C Montomoli, S Iaccarino, R Carosi, A Langone… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The core of the Greater Himalayan Sequence in the Mugu-Karnali area (Western Nepal) is
affected by a thick shear zone with development of nearly 4 km of mylonites (Mangri shear …