Himalayan metamorphism and its tectonic implications

MJ Kohn - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The Himalayan range exposes a spectacular assemblage of metamorphic rocks from the
mid-and deep crust that have fostered numerous models of how the crust responds to …

Himalayan leucogranites and migmatites: nature, timing and duration of anatexis

RF Weinberg - Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread anatexis was a regional response to the evolution of the Himalayan‐Tibetan
Orogen that occurred some 30 Ma after collision between Asia and India. This paper reviews …

Timescales of crustal melting in the Higher Himalayan Crystallines (Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya) inferred from trace element-constrained monazite and zircon …

D Rubatto, S Chakraborty, S Dasgupta - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2013 - Springer
The petrology and timing of crustal melting has been investigated in the migmatites of the
Higher Himalayan Crystalline (HHC) exposed in Sikkim, India. The metapelites underwent …

Partial melting in the Higher Himalayan Crystallines of Eastern Nepal: the effect of decompression and implications for the 'Channel Flow'model

C Groppo, F Rolfo, A Indares - Journal of Petrology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Partial melting of deep continental crust may occur during either prograde heating or
decompression. Although the effect of temperature on crustal melting has been widely …

How does the mid-crust accommodate deformation in large, hot collisional orogens? A review of recent research in the Himalayan orogen

JM Cottle, KP Larson, DA Kellett - Journal of Structural Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
The presence of hot, weak crust is a central component of recent hypotheses that seek to
explain the evolution of continent-continent collisions, and in particular may play an …

[HTML][HTML] Developing an inverted Barrovian sequence; insights from monazite petrochronology

CM Mottram, CJ Warren, D Regis, NMW Roberts… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
In the Himalayan region of Sikkim, the well-developed inverted metamorphic sequence of
the Main Central Thrust (MCT) zone is folded, thus exposing several transects through the …

Two-stage partial melting and contrasting cooling history within the Higher Himalayan Crystalline Sequence in the far-eastern Nepal Himalaya

T Imayama, T Takeshita, K Yi, DL Cho, K Kitajima… - Lithos, 2012 - Elsevier
The timing of partial melting and the pressure–temperature (P–T) paths in the High
Himalayan Crystalline Sequence (HHCS) in far-eastern Nepal has been investigated using …

Petrology and geochronology of the Namche Barwa Complex in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, Tibet: constraints on the origin and evolution of the north-eastern …

Z Zhang, X Dong, M Santosh, F Liu, W Wang, F Yiu… - Gondwana …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Namche Barwa Complex (NBC) in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, south Tibet, is
generally interpreted as the north-eastern extremity of the exposed Greater Himalayan …

Pressure–temperature–time–deformation path of kyanite-bearing migmatitic paragneiss in the Kali Gandaki valley (Central Nepal): Investigation of Late Eocene–Early …

S Iaccarino, C Montomoli, R Carosi, HJ Massonne… - Lithos, 2015 - Elsevier
Kyanite-bearing migmatitic paragneiss of the lower Greater Himalayan Sequence (GHS) in
the Kali Gandaki transect (Central Himalaya) was investigated. In spite of the intense …

Long-lived high-temperature granulite-facies metamorphism in the Eastern Himalayan orogen, south Tibet

Z Zhang, H Xiang, X Dong, H Ding, Z He - Lithos, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Namche Barwa Complex exposed in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis, south
Tibet, underwent high-pressure (HP) and high-temperature (HT) granulite-facies …