Pan-African and Early Paleozoic orogenic events in the Himalaya terrane: Inference from SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages

Acta Petrologica Sinica

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Xu, ZhiQin ^a   Yang, JingSui ^a   Liang, FengHua ^a   Qi, XueXiang ^a   Liu, FuLai ^a   Zeng, LingSen ^a   Liu, DunYi ^a   Li, HaiBing ^a   Wu, CaiLai ^a   Shi, RenDeng ^a   Chen, SongYong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Himalaya; Pan African and Early Paleozoic orogenic events; SHRIMP dating

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; LEAD; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SHELLFISH; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES METAMORPHISM; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; HIMALAYAS; METAMORPHIC BASEMENTS; OROGENIC EVENTS; SHRIMP DATING; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; SHRIMP DATING;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; WORLD;

EID: 84978001459     PISSN: 10000569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Acharyya S K. 2000. Break up of Australia-India-Madagascar Blok, Openning of the Indian Ocean and Continental Accretion in Southeast Asia with special reference to the characteristics of the Peri-Indian Collision Zones. Gondwana Research, 3 (4): 425-443
2. Acharyya. 1977. Stratigraphy and tectonic features of the Eastern Himalayas. In: Tectonic Geology of the Himalaya, P. S. Saklani Ed., Today and Tomorrow's Pub: 243-268
3. Argand E. 1922. La tectonique de l'Asie. C R Cong Geol Int. Liege, XIII Sess., Fasc. 1, 171-372
4. Argles T W, Prin C I, Foster G L, Vance D. 1999. New garnets for old? Cautionary tales from young mountain belts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 172: 301-309
5. Besse J et al. 1984. Paleomagnetic estimates of crustal shortening in the Himalayan thrusts and Zangbo suture. Nature, 311: 621-626
6. Brookfield M E. 1993. The Himalayan passive margin from Precambrian to Cretaceous. Sedimentary Geol., 84: 1-35
7. Burchifiel B C, Chen Z, Hodges K V, Liu Y, Royden L H, et al. 1992. The South Tibetan Detachement System, Himalayan orogen: extension contemporaneous with and parallel to shortening in a collisional mountain belt. Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap., 269: 1-41
8. Burg J P, Chen G M. 1984. Tectonics and structural formation of southern Tibet, China. Nature, 311: 219-223
9. Catlos E J, Harrison T N, Manning C E, Grove M, Rai S M, Hubbard M S, Upreti B N. 2002. Records of the evolution of the Himalayan orogen from in situ Th-Pb ion microprobe dating of monazite: Eastern Nepal and western Garhwal. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 20: 459-479
10. Chemenda A I, Burg J P, Mattauer M. 2000. Evolutionary model of the Himalaya-Tibet system: geopoem based on new midelling, geological and geophysical data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 174: 397-409
11. Chemenda A I, Mattauer M, Malavielle A N, Bokun A. 1995. A mechanism for syn-Collisional deep rock exhumation and associated normal faulting: results from physical modeling. Earth Plenet. Sci. Lett., 132: 225-232
12. Compston W, Williams I S, and Kirschvink J L. 1992. Zircon U-Pb ages for the Early Cambrian time-scale. Journal of the Geological Society, 149: 171-184
13. Condie K C. 2001. Continental grough during formation of Rodinia at 1. 35-0.9Ga. Gondwana Research, 4(1): 5-16
14. DeCelles P G, Gehrels G E, Quade J, Lareau B, Spurlin M. 2000. Tectonic implications of U-Pb zircon ages of the Himalayan orogenic belt in Nepal. Science, 288: 497-499
15. DeCelles P G, Robison D M, Quade J, Ojha T P, Garzione C N, Copel P, Upreti B N. 2001. Stratigraphy, structure and tectonic evolution of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt in western Nepal. Tectonics, 20: 487-509
16. Foster G L. 2000. The pre-Neogene thermal history of the Nanga Parbat Haramosh Massif and the NW Himalaya [Ph. D. dissertation]. The Open University, United Kingdom, 345
17. Gansser A. 1964. The Geology of the Himalayas. London, Wiley Interscience: 289
18. Garzanti E, Casnedi R, Jadoul F. 1986. Sedimentary evidence of a Cambro-Ordovicin orogenic event in the northwestern Himalaya. Sedimentary Geology, 48: 237-265
19. Gehrels G E, DeCelles P G, Martin A, Ojha T P, Pinhassi G, Upreti B N. 2003. Initiation of the Himalayan Orogen as an Early Paleozoic Thin-skinned Thrust Belt. GAS TODAY, 13(9): 4-9
20. 39Ar themochronology. Tectonics, 20: 729-747
21. Gradstein F M, Ogg J G, Smith A G et al. 2004. A Geologic Time Scale; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report: 86
22. Harrison T M, Ryerson F J, Le F P, Yin A, Lovera O, Catlos E J. 1997. A late Miocene-Pliocene progin for the central Himalayan inverted metamorphism. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 146: E1-E7
23. Hodges K V. 2000. Tectonics of the Himalaya and southern Tibet from two perspectives. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 112: 324-350
24. Hoffman P F. 1991. Did the breakup of Laurentia turn Gonwana inside out? Science, 252: 1409-1412
25. Institute of Chengdu Geology and Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. 1988. Geological Map of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Adjacent Region. Beijing: Geological Publishing House
26. Kennedy W Q. 1964. The structural defferentiation of Africa in the Pan-Africa (± 500m. y.) tectonic episode. Res. Inst. African Geol. Univ. Leeds 8th Ann. Rep., 48
27. Krummenacher D. 1961. Determination d' age isotopique faite sur quelques roches de L'Himalaya du Nepal par la methode K/Ar Bull. Suisse, Min. Petr. 41(2): 273
28. Kumar R, Shan A N, Bingham D K. 1978. Positive evidence of a Precambrian tectonic phase in central Nepal, Himalaya. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 19: 519-522
29. Le Fort P, Debon F, Sonet J. 1983. The Lower Paleozoic Lesser Himalayan granitic belt: Emphasis on the Simchar pluton of central Nepal, In: Shams F A (ed.), Granites of the Himalaya arakoram and Hindu Kush: Lahore, Institute of Geology, Punjab University: 235-256
30. Le Fort P. 1996. Evolution of the Himalaya. In: The Tectonics of Asia, ed. A Yin, TM Harrison, New York: Cambridge Univ. Press: 95-106
31. Li Z X, Zhang L H, Powell C M. 1995. South China in Rodinian: part of the missing link between Australia - East Antarrctic and Laurentia? Geology, 23(5):407-410
32. Li Z X, Zhang L H, Powell C M. 1996. Positions of the East Asian cratons in the Neoproterozoic supercontinent Radinia. In: Li Z X, Metcalfe I, Powell C M (eds.) Breakup of Rodinia and Gondwanal and assembly of Asia. Australia J. Earth Science, 43(6): 593-604.
33. Liu W C, Liang D Y, Wang K Y. 2002. The Ordovician discovery in the Kangma region of the south Tibet and its geological significance. Earth Science Frontiers, 9(4): 247-248 (in Chinese)
34. Lu S N. 2002. Preliminary in the North Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Beijing: Geological Publishing House, 125 (in Chinese)
35. Molnar R, Tapponnier P. 1975. Cenozoic tectonics of Asia: Effects of a continental collision. Science, 189: 419-426
36. Patzelt A, Li H, Wang J, Appel E. 1996. Paleomagnetism of Cretaceous to Tertiary sediments from Southern Tibet: evidence for the extent of the northern margin of India prior to the collision with Eurasia. Tectonophysics, 259: 259-284
37. Stocklin J, Bhattarai K D. 1977. Geology of the Kathmandu area and central Mahabharat Range, Nepal: Department of Mines and Geology, Himalayan Report: 86
38. Stocklin J. 1980. Geology of Nepal and regional frame. Geological Society [London] Journal, 137: 1-34
39. Tapponnier P, Peltzer G, Le Dain A Y. 1982. Propagating extrusion tectonics in Asia: New insights from simple experiments with plasticine. Geology, 10: 611-616
40. Tassinari C C G, Munha J M U, Ribeiro A, Correia C T. 2001. Neoproterozoic oceans in the Ribeira belt (southern Brazi): the Pirapora do Bom Jesus ophiolitic complex. Episode, 24(4): 245-251
41. Thakur V C. 1980. Tectonics of the central crystallines of western Himalaya. Tectonophysics, 62: 141-154
42. Thakur V C. 1992. Geology of the western Himalaya. Oxford, Pergammon Press, 363
43. Valdiya K S. 1995. Proterozoic sedimentation and Pan-African geodynamic development of the Himalaya. Precambrian Research, 74: 35-55
44. Williams I S, Cleasson S. 1987. Isotope evidence for the Precambrian province and Caledonian metamorphism of high grade paragneiss from the Seve Nappes, Scandinavian Caledonides, II. Ion microprobe zircon U-Th-Pb. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 97: 205-217
45. Windley B F. 1978. The Evolving Continents, Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data: Typese in LinotronTimes and printed by Arrowsmith J W. Ltd., Brstol, John Wiley & Sons. 385
46. Xu R H, Sharer U, Allegre C J. 1985. Magmatism and metamorphism in the Lhasa Block (Tibet): an U-Pb geochronological study. J. Geot., 93: 42-57
47. Yin A, Harrison T M. 2000. Geologic Evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 28: 211-80
48. Zhou Z G, Liu W C, Liang D Y. 2004. Discovery of the Ordovician and its basal conglomente in the Kangmar area, southern Tibet with a discussion of the relation of the sedimentary cover and unifying basement in the Himalayas. Geological Bulletin of China, 23(7): 655-663 (in Chinese)