Late Paleozoic to early Triassic multiple roll-back and oroclinal bending of the Mongolia collage in Central Asia

W Xiao, BF Windley, C Han, W Liu, B Wan, J Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The architecture and mechanics of an orogen can be understood in terms of a system of
collages that are characterized by a complex assemblage of multiple components, but the …

The subduction plate interface: Rock record and mechanical coupling (from long to short timescales)

P Agard, A Plunder, S Angiboust, G Bonnet, J Ruh - Lithos, 2018 - Elsevier
Short-and long-term processes at or close to the subduction plate interface (eg, mineral
transformations, fluid release, seismicity and more generally deformation) might be more …

High‐pressure granulite facies overprinting during the exhumation of eclogites in the Bangong‐Nujiang Suture Zone, central Tibet: Link to flat‐slab subduction

XZ Zhang, Q Wang, YS Dong, C Zhang, QY Li… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The geometric transformation of a descending plate, such as from steep to flat subduction in
response to a change from normal to overthickened oceanic crust during subduction, is a …

Secular change of metamorphic features in the Himalayan orogen during the Cenozoic and its tectonic implications

M Ji, XY Gao, QX Xia, YF Zheng - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The Himalayan orogen is an archetype of collisional orogens built by the continental
collision between India and Asia in the Cenozoic, and it has been a natural laboratory for …

Eclogites and other high-pressure rocks in the Himalaya: A review

PJ O'Brien - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
Himalayan high-pressure metamorphic rocks are restricted to three environments: the suture
zone; close to the suture zone; and (mostly) far (> 100 km) from the suture zone. In the NW …

The Spongtang Massif in Ladakh, NW Himalaya: An Early Cretaceous record of spontaneous, intra-oceanic subduction initiation in the Neotethys

S Buckman, JC Aitchison, AP Nutman, VC Bennett… - Gondwana …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Fate of an oceanic plate in the Neo-Tethys intra-oceanic subduction system: Evidence from elemental and Rb/Sr–Sm/Nd isotopic systematics

IM Bhat, H Chauhan, T Ahmad, T Tanaka, M Bickle… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
We report the coexistence of normal mid-ocean ridge basalt (NMORB)-type and alkaline
ocean island basalt (OIB)-type mafic volcanics from the Zildat Ophiolitic Mélange (ZOM) …

Timing of subduction initiation, arc formation, ophiolite obduction and India–Asia collision in the Himalaya

MP Searle - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract Reconstruction of the Western Himalaya requires three subduction systems
operating beneath the Spong arc, Dras–Kohistan arc and the Asian continent during the …

[HTML][HTML] Lawsonite composition and zoning as tracers of subduction processes: A global review

DL Whitney, KF Fornash, P Kang, ED Ghent, L Martin… - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
Lawsonite is an abundant hydrous mineral in oceanic crust, sediments, and metasomatic
rocks at depths of~ 45 to 300 km in most subduction zones, but it is rarely preserved in the …

Low temperature eclogite facies rocks discovered in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis: Poly‐cyclic metamorphic evolution and implications

W Li, C Yin, Z Zhang, PA Cawood, S Li… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We report the first occurrence of poly‐cyclic high‐pressure low‐temperature (HP‐LT) rocks
from the easternmost Indus‐Yarlung suture zone, formed during subduction of Neo‐Tethyan …