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 …

Insight into zircon REE oxy-barometers: A lattice strain model perspective

X Zou, K Qin, X Han, G Li, NJ Evans, Z Li… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Zircon rare earth element (REE) oxy-barometers have been widely used to calculate magma
oxygen fugacity. However, sometimes confusing results are obtained, such as extremely …

A preliminary study of rare-metal mineralization in the Himalayan leucogranite belts, South Tibet

RC Wang, FY Wu, L **e, XC Liu, JM Wang… - Science China Earth …, 2017 - Springer
The Himalayan leucogranite occurs as two extensive (> 1000 km) EW trending belts on the
Tibetan Plateau with the unique features. The leucogranite comprised biotite granite, two …

Highly fractionated leucogranites in the eastern Himalayan Cuonadong dome and related magmatic Be–Nb–Ta and hydrothermal Be–W–Sn mineralization

L **e, X Tao, R Wang, F Wu, C Liu, X Liu, X Li, R Zhang - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
Leucogranitic rocks, including two-mica granite, muscovite granite, and granitic pegmatite
(aplite), crop out in the eastern Himalayan Cuonadong dome, southern Tibet. These rocks …

Lithium and Nd isotopic constraints on the origin of Li-poor pegmatite with implications for Li mineralization

B Chen, C Huang, H Zhao - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Although volumetrically minor in the upper continental crust, pegmatites host lots of rare-
metal mineralization (eg, Li, Be). Pegmatites and associated mineralization were generally …

[HTML][HTML] Late Triassic sedimentary records in the northern Tethyan Himalaya: Tectonic link with Greater India

H Cao, Y Huang, G Li, L Zhang, J Wu, L Dong, Z Dai… - Geoscience …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Upper Triassic flysch sediments (Nieru Formation and Langjiexue Group)
exposed in the Eastern Tethyan Himalayan Sequence are crucial for unraveling the …

[HTML][HTML] The long-lived partial melting of the Greater Himalayas in southern Tibet, constraints from the Miocene Gyirong anatectic pegmatite and its prospecting …

H Cao, Q Pei, X Yu, A Cao, Y Chen, H Liu, K Zhang… - China Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT The Cenozoic Himalayan leucogranite-pegmatite belt has been a hotspot for
rare metal exploration in recent years. To determine the genesis of the pegmatite in the …

Leucogranite geochronological constraints on the termination of the South Tibetan Detachment in eastern Himalaya

ZC Liu, FY Wu, ZL Qiu, JG Wang, XC Liu, WQ Ji, CZ Liu - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The South Tibetan Detachment System (STDS) developed between the very-low-
grade Tethyan Himalayan Sequence (THS) and the high-grade metamorphic Greater …

Extreme Mg and Zn isotope fractionation recorded in the Himalayan leucogranites

ZZ Wang, SA Liu, ZC Liu, YC Zheng, FY Wu - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract High-silica granites (typically> 70 wt.% SiO 2) represent the products of extreme
crustal differentiation, but whether their distinctive chemical compositions reflect source …

On the origin of high-pressure mafic granulite in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Himalayan orogen

Z Zhang, H Ding, RM Palin, X Dong, Z Tian, D Kang… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Himalayan orogen, resulting from the Early Cenozoic collision of the Indian and Asian
plates, is an ideal vehicle to study active orogenic processes and test geodynamic models of …