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 …

Two-stage exhumation, uplift, and basinward propagation of the Tian Shan during the late Cenozoic

Y Jiang, H Lu, R Yang, L Pang, R Jiao, Y Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
As a typical intracontinental orogenic belt, the Tian Shan range is a natural lab for the
understanding of ongoing intraplate deformation and related geodynamic mechanisms …

Orographic rainfall drives the Himalaya drainage divide to move north

S Bian, X Tan, Y Liu, S Fan, J Gong, C Zhou, F Shi… - Geomorphology, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Yarlung River flows between the east-trending Himalayan and Gangdese
orogens, and across several north-trending rifts. It carries rich information on the Indian …

Quantitative assessment of the erosion and deposition effects of landslide-dam outburst flood, Eastern Himalaya

X Dong, X Wang, L Yang, Z Zhao, R Van Balen… - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Both regular flow and infrequent outburst floods shape the mountain landscape, but their
relative contributions have been widely debated, in part due to the paucity of quantitative …

Reconstructing post-mid Pleistocene glacial-dammed paleolakes in the Tsangpo Gorge, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

P Wang, H Wang, G Hu, Y Ge, T Liu, B Xu - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The paleolakes of the Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge area of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau
provide an important basis for testing the hypothesis that glacial dams have effectively …

Glacier dam evolution and knickpoint migration in the Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge, eastern Himalayas, since the last glacial period

P Wang, H Wang, G Hu, T Liu, C Li, J Qin… - Quaternary Science …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The repeated cut-and-fill process induced by the late Quaternary glacial damming and
catastrophic outburst events in the Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge (YTG) in the eastern Himalaya …

Eastern Himalayan river captures and upper Assam uplift: Paleo-drainage evolution of the Brahmaputra River

P Rai, B Borgohain, G Mathew, JA Dev, JK Tomson - Gondwana Research, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The sedimentary rocks exposed in the peripheral foreland basin of a deforming orogen
conserve the history of the geologic process, paleo-drainage and erosion. We present a new …

A modern pulse of ultrafast exhumation and diachronous crustal melting in the Nanga Parbat Massif

VE Guevara, AJ Smye, MJ Caddick, MP Searle… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
We combine monazite petrochronology with thermal modeling to evaluate the relative roles
of crustal melting, surface denudation, and tectonics in facilitating ultrafast exhumation of the …

Caution on determining divide migration from cross‐divide contrast in χ

Y Wu, R Yang, C He, J He - Geological Journal, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The landscapes on Earth are shaped by the interaction of tectonics and erosion processes
and thus is a recorder for past tectonic and climatic histories. A recently proposed …

Sedimentary records of megafloods in the Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge in the eastern Himalaya since the Last Glacial Period

P Wang, H Wang, T Liu, G Hu, J Qin, R Yuan - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The megaflooding caused by outbursts from Late Quaternary glacially-dammed lakes in the
Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge (YTG) potentially shaped the fluvial landscape and controlled the …