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Geologic and U-Th-Pb geochronologic evidence for early Paleozoic tectonism in the Kathmandu thrust sheet, central Nepal Himalaya
Rb-Sr ages of micas from the Kathmandu complex, Central Nepalese Himalaya: implications for the evolution of the Main Central Thrust
Figure 11. Pb/U concordia diagram showing all analyses from a quartzite fro...
(a) Simplified cross section of the valley indicating the thickness of the ...
Positive Evidence of a Precambrian Tectonic Phase in Central Nepal, Himalaya
Figure 2. (A) Generalized geologic sketch map of the Kathmandu thrust sheet...
Figure 9. Pb/U concordia diagram showing analyses of detrital zircons in sa...
Geology of Nepal and its regional frame: Thirty-third William Smith Lecture
Evaluation and Comparison of GIS based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Procedures in Kulekhani Watershed, Nepal
Exhumation of Greater Himalayan rock along the Main Central Thrust in Nepal: implications for channel flow
Abstract South-vergent channel flow from beneath the Tibetan Plateau may have played an important role in forming the Himalaya. The possibility that Greater Himalayan rocks currently exposed in the Himalayan Fold-Thrust Belt flowed at mid-crustal depths before being exhumed is intriguing, and may suggest a natural link between orogenic processes operating under the Tibetan Plateau and in the fold-thrust belt. Conceptual and numeric models for the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen currently reported in the literature do an admirable job of replicating many of the observable primary geological features and relationships. Ho wever, detailed observations from Greater Himalayan rocks exposed in the fold-thrust belt’s external klippen, and from Lesser Himalayan rocks in the proximal footwall of the Main Central Thrust, suggest that since Early Miocene time, it may be more appropriate to model the evolution of the fold-thrust belt using the criticaltaper paradigm. This does not exclude the possibility that channel flow and linked extrasion of Greater Himalayan rocks may have occurred, but it places important boundaries on a permissible time frame during which these processes may have operated.
Observations and Simulations of Basin Effects in the Kathmandu Valley during the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake Sequence
Cambrian–Ordovician orogenesis in Himalayan equatorial Gondwana
Abstract Two orogen-scale thrusts structurally underneath Greater Himalayan (GH) rocks characterize the structural architecture of Himalaya in central Nepal. The Main Central thrust (MCT) is at the base of the GH with the Lesser Himalayan (LH) Robang Formation in the footwall, which is the hanging wall of the Ramgarh–Munsiari thrust (RMT). At Kodari-Tatopani and Malekhu, U–Pb detrital zircon age populations from the RMT sheet yield a maximum depositional age of c. 1838 and c. 1871 Ma. U–Pb analyses of igneous zircons from the RMT sheet yield a crystallization age of c. 1750 Ma at both Galchhi and Kodari-Tatopani. The ɛNd(0) values of pelitic rocks from the RMT sheet at Kodari-Tatopani range from c. −23 to −25; whereas, GH rocks have values from c. −12 to −18. These data indicate that the RMT sheet carries the Palaeoproterozoic LH rock and the MCT carries the GH rock. At Kodari-Tatopani, the thrust previously mapped as the MCT is interpreted to be the RMT. Positively identifying the RMT sheet in all three locations yields a more accurate kinematic evolution and confirms its orogenic-scale presence in central Nepal. Supplementary material: U–Pb geochronological analyses are available at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18775
Abstract Reconstructing the stratigraphic architecture of deposits prior to Cenozoic Himalayan uplift is critical for unravelling the structural, metamorphic, depositional and erosional history of the orogen. The nature and distribution of Proterozoic and lower Paleozoic strata have helped elucidate the relationship between lithotectonic zones, as well as the geometries of major bounding faults. Stratigraphic and geochronological work has revealed a uniform and widespread pattern of Paleoproterozoic strata >1.6 Ga that are unconformably overlain by <1.1 Ga rocks. The overlying Neoproterozoic strata record marine sedimentation, including a Cryogenian diamictite, a well-developed carbonate platform succession and condensed fossiliferous Precambrian–Cambrian boundary strata. Palaeontological study of Cambrian units permits correlation from the Indian craton through three Himalayan lithotectonic zones to a precision of within a few million years. Detailed sedimentological and stratigraphic analysis shows the differentiation of a proximal realm of relatively condensed, nearshore, evaporite-rich units to the south and a distal realm of thick, deltaic deposits to the north. Thus, Neoproterozoic and Cambrian strata blanketed the northern Indian craton with an extensive, northward-deepening, succession. Today, these rocks are absent from parts of the inner Lesser Himalaya, and the uplift and erosion of these proximal facies explains a marked change in global seawater isotopic chemistry at 16 Ma.
Ordovician strata of the Indian subcontinent
Abstract Ordovician rocks of the Indian Tethyan Himalaya contain a conspicuous angular unconformity between mostly marine Cambrian and overlying terrestrial Ordovician strata, which is a record of the Kurgiakh Orogeny. This tectonic event is traceable across the Tethyan Himalaya from Pakistan to Bhutan. The Pin Formation in the Spiti Valley provides a high-resolution account of the marine depositional history, palaeontology and isotope geochemistry of Late Ordovician events. The middle (Takche) member is late Katian and the upper Mikkim Member is lower Silurian (Llandovery), based on an ozarkodinid conodont fauna. The Pin Formation records the Boda event, the last warming interval prior to Hirnantian glaciation. The δ 13 C carb chemostratigraphic data allow precise global correlation, and recognition of the Paroveja positive excursion, the last major excursion of the Katian. The Mikkim Member records a ‘lower HICE’ (Hirnantian isotopic carbon excursion) of the Katian–Hirnantian boundary interval. Palaeontological data indicate that there are no known fossils diagnostic of any Ordovician ages older than the Katian Stage in India. Evidence of Ordovician sedimentary rocks in the Lesser Himalaya is intriguing, but presently equivocal. The widespread absence of pre-Katian strata on the Indian subcontinent is due to erosion associated with the Kurghiak orogeny and delayed onlap onto topographically high areas.
ABSTRACT New geological mapping in midwestern Nepal, complemented by thermochronological and geochronological data sets, provides stratigraphic, structural, and kinematic information for this portion of the Himalayan thrust belt. Lithofacies and geochronologic data substantiate five genetic (tectono)stratigraphic packages: the Lesser Himalayan (ca. 1900–1600 Ma), Greater Himalayan (ca. 800–520 Ma), Tethyan Himalayan (Late Ordovician–Cretaceous), Gondwana (Permian–Paleocene), and Cenozoic Foreland Basin (Eocene–Pleistocene) Sequences. Major structures of midwestern Nepal are similar to those documented along strike in the Himalaya and include a frontal imbricate zone, the Main Boundary and Ramgarh thrusts, the synformal Dadeldhura and Jajarkot klippen of Greater Himalayan rocks, and the hybrid antiformal-stack/hinterland-dipping Lesser Himalayan duplex. Total (probably minimum) shortening between the Main Frontal thrust and the South Tibetan detachment is 400–580 km, increasing westward from the Kaligandaki River region. The Main Central and Ramgarh thrusts were active sequentially during the early to middle Miocene; the Lesser Himalayan duplex developed between ca. 11 Ma and 5 Ma; the Main Boundary thrust became active after ca. 5 Ma and remains active in places; and thrusts that cut the Siwalik Group foreland basin deposits in the frontal imbricate belt have been active since ca. 4–2 Ma. The Main Central “thrust” is a broad shear zone that includes the boundary between Lesser and Greater Himalayan Sequences as defined by their protolith characteristics (especially their ages and lithofacies). The shape of the major footwall frontal ramp beneath the Lesser Himalayan duplex is geometrically complex and has evolved progressively over the past ~10 m.y. This study provides the basis for understanding the Himalayan thrust belt and recent seismic activity in terms of critical taper models of orogenic wedges, and it will help to focus future efforts on better documenting crustal shortening in the northern half of the thrust belt.