20 years of geological map** of the metamorphic core across Central and Eastern Himalayas

R Carosi, C Montomoli, S Iaccarino - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The largest crystalline unit representing the mid-crust in the Himalayan belt is the Greater
Himalayan Sequence (GHS) which stretches all over the 2400 km of length of the belt. The …

Metamorphic response to collision in the Central Himalayan Orogen

B Goscombe, D Gray, DA Foster - Gondwana Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Closure of the Neotethys Ocean and high-angle continent-continent collision
between India and Asia after about 55 Ma resulted in low-angle subduction of the Indian …

[HTML][HTML] Major ion chemistry of the Teesta River in Sikkim Himalaya, India: Chemical weathering and assessment of water quality

T Tsering, MSMA Wahed, S Iftekhar… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Study Region Teesta River of Eastern Himalayas, India. Study Focus This article
addresses the mechanisms of weathering in the Teesta River, for the first time based on the …

Population-wide garnet growth zoning revealed by LA-ICP-MS map**: implications for trace element equilibration and syn-kinematic deformation during …

FR George, F Gaidies, B Boucher - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2018 - Springer
The strong partitioning of many trace elements into garnet and their slow diffusivities in both
garnet and the rock matrix means that their distribution may record valuable petrogenetic …

Structural and thermal evolution of the Himalayan thrust belt in midwestern Nepal

PG DeCelles, B Carrapa, TP Ojha, GE Gehrels… - 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New geological map** in midwestern Nepal, complemented by thermochronological and
geochronological data sets, provides stratigraphic, structural, and kinematic information for …

Field documentation and genesis of back-structures in ductile and brittle regimes from the foreland part of a collisional orogen: examples from the Darjeeling–Sikkim …

N Bose, S Mukherjee - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2019 - Springer
In the foreland-side of an orogen, thrust-related structures develop that verge towards the
foreland (fore-thrusts). Although much less abundant, structures with opposite vergence (ie …

Three-dimensional magnetotelluric signatures and rheology of subducting continental crust: Insights from Sikkim Himalaya, India

S Konda, PK Patro, KC Reddy, N Babu - Journal of Geodynamics, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D inversion of broad band MT data present variation of electrical signatures across
the subducting Indian crust in Sikkim Himalaya. The vertical and horizontal geoelectric cross …

Zircon, Monazite SHRIMP U-Th-Pb and Quartz Oxygen Isotopic Results from the Higher Himalayan Crystallines (HHC) of the Sikkim Himalayas

S Prabha-Mohan, IS Williams, S Singh - Minerals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Migmatites and partial melts are exposed in both the lower and upper package of the Higher
Himalayan Crystallines (HHC) thrust sheet within the Sikkim Himalayas. Zircon monazite …

Modeling high‐resolution pressure‐temperature paths across the Himalayan Main Central Thrust (Central Nepal): Implications for the dynamics of collision

EJ Catlos, OM Lovera, ED Kelly, KT Ashley… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution, garnet‐based pressure‐temperature (P‐T) paths were obtained for nine
rocks across the Himalayan Main Central Thrust (MCT)(Marsyangdi River transect, central …

Dating protracted fault activities: microstructures, microchemistry and geochronology of the Vaikrita Thrust, Main Central Thrust zone, Garhwal Himalaya, NW India

C Montemagni, C Montomoli, S Iaccarino… - Geological Society …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
The timing of shearing along the Vaikrita Thrust, the upper structural boundary of the Main
Central Thrust Zone in the Garhwal Himalaya, was constrained by combined microstructural …