Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Himalayan orogen as constrained by along-strike variation of structural geometry, exhumation history, and foreland sedimentation

A Yin - Earth-Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
Despite a long research history over the past 150 years, the geometry, kinematics, and
dynamic evolution of the Himalayan orogen remain poorly understood. This is mainly due to …

Geology of the NW Indian Himalaya

A Steck - Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 2003 - elibrary.ru
This review paper deals with the geology of the NW Indian Himalaya situated in the states of
Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Garhwal. The models and mechanisms …

Detrital zircon geochronology of pre‐Tertiary strata in the Tibetan‐Himalayan orogen

G Gehrels, P Kapp, P DeCelles, A Pullen, R Blakey… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Detrital zircon data have recently become available from many different portions of the
Tibetan–Himalayan orogen. This study uses 13,441 new or existing U‐Pb ages of zircon …

Early Palaeozoic orogenesis along the Indian margin of Gondwana: Tectonic response to Gondwana assembly

PA Cawood, MRW Johnson, AA Nemchin - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2007 - Elsevier
SHRIMP U–Pb dating of zircons from a peralkaline S-type Lesser Himalayan granite from
the Kathmandu region, Nepal indicate an age of emplacement of 475 Ma. The granites …

Implications of shortening in the Himalayan fold‐thrust belt for uplift of the Tibetan Plateau

PG DeCelles, DM Robinson, G Zandt - Tectonics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research in the Himalayan fold‐thrust belt provides two new sets of observations that
are crucial to understanding the evolution of the Himalayan‐Tibetan orogenic system. First …

Himalayan architecture constrained by isotopic tracers from clastic sediments

A Richards, T Argles, N Harris, R Parrish… - Earth and Planetary …, 2005 - Elsevier
We report the first geochemical traverse to integrate U–Pb ages and Hf data on single
detrital zircons with bulk-rock Sm–Nd–Rb–Sr isotopic measurements across the breadth of …

[PDF][PDF] Initiation of the Himalayan orogen as an early Paleozoic thin-skinned thrust belt

GE Gehrels, PG DeCelles, A Martin, TP Ojha… - GSA today, 2003 - academia.edu
Research by many workers in various regions of the Himalaya, combined with our recent
geologic and geochronologic studies in Nepal, indicate that fundamental aspects of the …

Tethyan and Indian subduction viewed from the Himalayan high-to ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks

S Guillot, G Mahéo, J De Sigoyer, KH Hattori, A Pecher - Tectonophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
The Himalayan range is one of the best documented continent-collisional belts and provides
a natural laboratory for studying subduction processes. High-pressure and ultrahigh …

Cenozoic tectonic history of the Himachal Himalaya (northwestern India) and its constraints on the formation mechanism of the Himalayan orogen

AAG Webb, A Yin, TM Harrison, J Célérier… - …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A central debate for the evolution of the Himalayan orogen is how the Greater Himalayan
Crystalline complex in its core was emplaced during the Cenozoic Indo-Asian collision …

Petrogenesis of early Paleozoic peraluminous granite in the Sibumasu Block of SW Yunnan and diachronous accretionary orogenesis along the northern margin of …

Y Wang, X Xing, PA Cawood, S Lai, X Xia, W Fan… - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic data along with whole-rock elemental and Sr–Nd
isotopic data for early Paleozoic granitoids from the Tengchong, Baoshan and Shan-Thai …