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 …

Late Carboniferous collision between the Tarim and Kazakhstan–Yili terranes in the western segment of the South Tian Shan Orogen, Central Asia, and implications …

BF Han, GQ He, XC Wang, ZJ Guo - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
The Tian Shan of Central Asia is located in the southwestern part of the Central Asian
Orogenic Belt (CAOB, also known as the Central Asian Orogenic System or CAOS) …

[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 …

Experimental melts from crustal rocks: a lithochemical constraint on granite petrogenesis

P Gao, YF Zheng, ZF Zhao - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
Many studies of experimental petrology have devoted to partial melting of crustal rocks. In
order to provide lithochemical constraints on granite petrogenesis, this paper presents a …

Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic constraints on petrogenesis of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet

WQ Ji, FY Wu, SL Chung, JX Li, CZ Liu - Chemical Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
During the Mesozoic–Cenozoic, northward Neotethyan subduction and subsequent India–
Asia collision gave rise to the extensive Transhimalayan magmatism that stretches from …

Contrasting geochemical signatures of fluid-absent versus fluid-fluxed melting of muscovite in metasedimentary sources: The Himalayan leucogranites

LE Gao, L Zeng, PD Asimow - Geology, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Most of the Himalayan Cenozoic leucogranites are products of partial melting of
metapelite sources. In the Malashan-Gyirong area (southern Tibet), the geochemical …

Mid-Eocene high Sr/Y granites in the Northern Himalayan Gneiss Domes: Melting thickened lower continental crust

L Zeng, LE Gao, K **e, J Liu-Zeng - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2011 - Elsevier
Within the Himalayan collisional belt, granotoids occur along two sub-parallel belts, the
Northern Himalayan Gneiss Domes (NHGD) and the High Himalayan Crystalline Series …

Upper crustal abundances of trace elements: A revision and update

Z Hu, S Gao - Chemical Geology, 2008 - Elsevier
We report new estimates of abundances of rarely analyzed elements (As, B, Be, Bi, Cd, Ge,
In, Mo, Sb, Sn, Te, Tl, W) in the upper continental crust based on precise ICP-MS analyses of …

Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb–O isotopic compositions of the post-collisional ultrapotassic magmatism in SW Tibet: petrogenesis and implications for India intra …

Z Zhao, X Mo, Y Dilek, Y Niu, DJ DePaolo, P Robinson… - Lithos, 2009 - Elsevier
Ultrapotassic lavas having distinct geochemical compositions (K2O/Na2O> 2, K2O> 3%, and
MgO> 3%) are common and widespread on the Tibet Plateau, where they are closely linked …

The nature and timing of crustal thickening in Southern Tibet: geochemical and zircon Hf isotopic constraints from postcollisional adakites

SL Chung, MF Chu, J Ji, SY O'Reilly, NJ Pearson, D Liu… - Tectonophysics, 2009 - Elsevier
Rising as “the roof of the world” the Tibetan plateau is now underlain with the thickest
continental crust on Earth. How and when was this crust formed, which would have exerted …