Abstract The Spongtang Massif is a remnant of Neotethyan ocean crust emplaced onto the
Indian passive margin along the Indus-Yarlung-Tsangpo Suture in the NW Himalayan …

The geologic evolution of northern India is best recorded in the stratigraphic succession of
the Zanskar Range (northwestern Himalaya), which represents the most complete transect …

The onset of India‐Asia contact can be dated with both biostratigraphic analysis of syn‐
collisional sedimentary successions deposited on each side of the Indus Suture zone, and …

The collision of India and Asia can be defined as a process that started with the closing of
the Tethyan ocean that, during Mesozoic and early Tertiary times, separated the two …

New constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Neo-Tethys Ocean indicate that at∼ 90–70
Ma and at∼ 50–40 Ma, vast quantities of mafic and ultramafic rocks were emplaced at low …

The Spontang ophiolite forms the highest tectonic thrust slice above the Mesozoic–Early
Tertiary continental margin of the north Indian plate in the Ladakh-Zanskar Himalaya …

A structural and lithological map has been produced covering the Spontang ophiolite and
the north Indian continental margin from the Indus Suture Zone in the north to the high-grade …

Abstract The Lower Cretaceous terrigenous shelf succession of the Zanskar Range
(uppermost Spiti Shale and Giumal Group) testifies to major tectono-eustatic events which …

Abstract The Big Jim complex is a concentrically zoned ultramafic to felsic plutonic complex
which intruded the pelitic Chiwaukum schist. Most of the major plutonic rock types (from …

The pre-collisional tectonic evolution of the north Indian continental margin is best recorded
in the few ophiolite complexes preserved, the largest of which occurs in the Spontang area …