Himalayan Tectonics: A Modern Synthesis
Product code: SP483
Print publication date: 08/10/2019
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Structure Processes and Tectonics, Tectonics
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786204059
Author/Edited by: Edited by P.J. Treloar and M.P. Searle
Weight: 1.3kg
Number of pages: 678
Online publication date: 23/09/2019
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/483/1
£160.00
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Special Publication 483
The Himalaya–Karakoram–Tibet mountain belt resulted from Cenozoic collision of India and Asia and is frequently used as the type example of a continental collision orogenic belt. The last quarter of a century has seen the publication of a remarkably detailed dataset relevant to the evolution of this belt. Detailed fieldwork backed up by state-of-the-art structural analysis, geochemistry, mineral chemistry, igneous and metamorphic petrology, isotope chemistry, sedimentology and geophysics produced a wide-ranging archive of data-rich scientific papers. The rationale for this book is to provide a coherent overview of these datasets in addressing the evolution of the mountain ranges we see today.
This volume comprises 21 specially invited review papers on the Himalaya, Kohistan arc, Tibet, the Karakoram and Pamir ranges. These papers span the history of Himalayan research, chronology of the collision, stratigraphy, magmatic and metamorphic processes, structural geology and tectonics, seismicity, geophysics, and the evolution of the Indian monsoon. This landmark set of papers should underpin the next 25 years of Himalayan research.
Dedication
Acknowledgements
SEARLE, M. P. & TRELOAR, P. J. Introduction to Himalayan tectonics: a modern synthesis
Timings and stratigraphy
SEARLE, M. P. Timing of subduction initiation, arc formation, ophiolite obduction and India–Asia collision in the Himalaya
MYROW, P. M., HUGHES, N. C. & MCKENZIE, N. R. Reconstructing the Himalayan margin prior to collision with Asia: Proterozoic and lower Paleozoic geology and its implications for Cenozoic tectonics
GARZANTI, E. The Himalayan Foreland Basin from collision onset to the present: a sedimentary–petrology perspective
NW Himalaya
PETTERSON, M. G. The plutonic crust of Kohistan and volcanic crust of Kohistan–Ladakh, north Pakistan/India: lessons learned for deep and shallow arc processes
JAGOUTZ, O., BOUILHOL, P., SCHALTEGGER, U. & MÜNTENER, O. The isotopic evolution of the Kohistan Ladakh arc from subduction initiation to continent arc collision
O’BRIEN, P. J. Eclogites and other high-pressure rocks in the Himalaya: a review
BUTLER, R. W. H. Tectonic evolution of the Himalayan syntaxes: the view from Nanga Parbat
TRELOAR, P. J., PALIN, R. M. & SEARLE, M. P. Towards resolving the metamorphic enigma of the Indian Plate in the NW Himalaya of Pakistan
Nepal Himalaya
DYCK, B., ST-ONGE, M., SEARLE, M. P., RAYNER, N., WATERS, D. & WELLER, O. M. Protolith lithostratigraphy of the Greater Himalayan Series in Langtang, Nepal: implications for the architecture of the northern Indian margin
CAROSI, R., MONTOMOLI, C., IACCARINO, S. & VISONÀ, D. Structural evolution, metamorphism and melting in the Greater Himalayan Sequence in central-western Nepal
WATERS, D. J. Metamorphic constraints on the tectonic evolution of the High Himalaya in Nepal: the art of the possible
KELLETT, D. A., COTTLE, J. M. & LARSON, K. P. The South Tibetan Detachment System: history, advances, definition and future directions
JESSUP, M. J., LANGILLE, J. M., DIEDESCH, T. F. & COTTLE, J. M. Gneiss Dome Formation in the Himalaya and southern Tibet
Geophysics
BILHAM, R. Himalayan earthquakes: a review of historical seismicity and early 21st century slip potential
PRIESTLEY, K., HO, T. & MITRA, S. The crustal structure of the Himalaya: A synthesis
Karakoram – Pamir – Tibet
METCALF, K. & KAPP, P. History of subduction erosion and accretion recorded in the Yarlung Suture Zone, southern Tibet
SEARLE, M. P. & HACKER, B. R. Structural and metamorphic evolution of the Karakoram and Pamir following India–Kohistan–Asia collision
ZHU, D.-C., WANG, Q., CHUNG, S.-L., CAWOOD, P. A. & ZHAO, Z.-D. Gangdese magmatism in southern Tibet and India–Asia convergence since 120 Ma
HE, J., KAPP, P., CHAPMAN, J. B., DECELLES, P. G. & CARRAPA, B. Structural setting and detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology of Triassic–Cenozoic strata in the eastern Central Pamir, Tajikistan
Monsoon system
CLIFT, P. D. & WEBB, A. A. G. A history of the Asian monsoon and its interactions with solid Earth tectonics in Cenozoic South Asia
Index
