Miocene development of the Main Boundary thrust and Ramgarh thrust, and exhumation of Lesser Himalayan rocks of the Kumaun-Garhwal region, NW-Himalaya …

P Singh, RC Patel - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Bounded between the northeast dipping Main Boundary Thrust (MBT) at the base and the
Saleri Thrust (ST) at the top, the Amritpur granite in the Kumaun-Garhwal region, NW …

Understanding pre-and syn-orogenic tectonic evolution in western Himalaya through age and petrogenesis of Palaeozoic and Cenozoic granites from upper structural …

A Sen, K Sen, A Chatterjee, S Choudhary… - Geological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The Himalaya is characterized by the presence of both pre-Himalayan Palaeozoic and syn-
Himalayan Cenozoic granitic bodies, which can help unravel the pre-to syn-collisional …

Diverse anatexis in the Main Central Thrust Zone, eastern Nepal: Implications for melt evolution and exhumation process of the Himalaya

S Liu, G Zhang, L Zhang, S Wang, BN Upreti… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Sitting between the Greater Himalayan sequence (GHS) and Lesser Himalayan
sequence (LHS), the Main Central Thrust zone (MCTZ) has experienced multiple episodes …

Miocene anatexis, cooling and exhumation in the Khumbu Himal, Nepal

KP Larson, JM Cottle, A Camacho… - International Geology …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Khumbu region of Nepal is host to numerous large leucogranite bodies that
comprise some of the most iconic peaks in the Himalaya. These leucogranites occur …

South Tibetan Detachment System (STDS), NW Himalaya: A possible Cambro–Ordovician tectonic terrane boundary, and its Cenozoic remobilization

GG Deshmukh, AK Jain, PK Mukherjee, S Singhal… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The South Tibetan Detachment System is an important extensional fault zone,
separating the Greater Himalayan Sequence from the overlying Tethyan Himalayan …

Evaluating the distinct identity and the orogen-scale nature of the Munsiari thrust in the Himalaya

S Chakraborty, A Sengupta - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The Munsiari thrust (MT) was first recognized in northwest India within the Paleoproterozoic
Lesser Himalayan rocks, but debate persists over its distinct identity and orogen-scale …

Chemical mass transport during deformation and metamorphism: Insights from the Main Central Thrust and its footwall of Western Arunachal Himalaya, NE India

P Kalita, P Phukon, TK Goswami, T Imayama… - Lithos, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Main Central Thrust (MCT) is one of the major tectonic discontinuities stretching
about~ 2500 km along the length of the Himalaya and it plays important role during the …

Zircon geochronology and Hf isotopic study from the Leo Pargil Dome, India: implications for the palaeogeographic reconstruction and tectonic evolution of a …

SR Rai, HK Sachan, CJ Spencer, A Kharya… - Geological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
U–Pb geochronology, Hf isotopes and trace-element chemistry of zircon grains from
migmatite of the upper Sutlej valley (Leo Pargil), Northwest Himalaya, reveal a protracted …

Spatial variation of body wave attenuation in Garhwal-Kumaun Himalaya region, India

R Biswas, P Mandal, S Saha, R Prathigadapa… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2024 - Elsevier
We have investigated the spatial variation of body wave attenuation in Garhwal-Kumaun
Himalaya region from the datasets of 465 well located earthquakes, recorded at 52 …

Records of Himalayan metamorphism and contractional tectonics in the central Himalayas (Darondi Khola, Nepal)

EJ Catlos - … Tectonics: Plate Convergence to Mountain Building, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Himalayan orogen exposes assemblages from low‐grade Indian shelf sediments of the
Tethyan Formation to eclogite and ultra‐high‐pressure rocks from the suture zone between …