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Northeastern India
Subsurface Profiling Using Roadside MASW Survey: Influence of Multiple Sources and Offline Distance
Can colpus membrane ornamentation be a reliable taxonomic tool? A case study with some rubiaceous taxa from eastern Himalaya
Stress state in parts of NE India: borehole collapse modelling with sensitivity analysis
Significance of viscous coalescence in migmatites of the Assam-Meghalaya Gneissic Complex, eastern India
An Appraisal of Ground Failure and Hydrogeological Changes Associated with the 28 April 2021 M w 6 Sonitpur Earthquake, Assam, India, Using Field Evidences and InSAR Measurements
Larger Benthic Foraminifera and Microfacies of Late Paleocene - Early Eocene Sections in Meghalaya, Northeast India
Predicting porosity, water saturation, and shale volume with high-resolution seismic inversion using Hopfield network: Upper Assam Basin, India
Evolution of Neoproterozoic Shillong Basin, Meghalaya, NE India: implications of supercontinent break-up and amalgamation
Neogene shallow-marine and fluvial sediment dispersal, burial, and exhumation in the ancestral Brahmaputra delta: Indo-Burman Ranges, India
Geochemical and metamorphic record of the amphibolites from the Tuting–Tidding Suture Zone ophiolites, Eastern Himalaya, India: implications for the presence of a dismembered metamorphic sole
Modern pollen spectra from the Pala Wetland Reserve Forest, Siaha District, Southern Mizoram, north-eastern India
Indo-Burma passive amalgamation along the Kaladan Fault: Insights from zircon provenance in the Chittagong-Tripura Fold Belt (Bangladesh)
Characterization and metamorphic evolution of Mesoproterozoic granulites from Sonapahar (Meghalaya), NE India, using EPMA monazite dating
Tectonic control over exhumation in the Arunachal Himalaya: new constraints from Apatite Fission Track Analysis
Abstract New apatite fission track (AFT) ages have been obtained from a synformal nappe of the Higher Himalayan Crystallines emplaced over the Lesser Himalayan metasedimentary zone of the Arunachal Himalaya, India. The AFT cooling ages within the nappe range between 5.0 ± 0.8 and 14.4 ± 1.3 Ma. Modelled exhumation rates calculated from these cooling ages vary from 0.25 ± 0.12 to 0.69 ± 0.25 mm a −1 , which indicates slow exhumation since the Middle to Late Miocene. The AFT cooling ages are younging on both the northern and southern flanks of the synform and the oldest ages are confined to the core. The close mimicking of a shallow crustal exhumation pattern with the synformal structure suggests a strong control of the development of the synform on the exhumation path of the rocks and hence a tectonics–exhumation linkage in the central Arunachal Himalaya. Comparison of these AFT ages with the regional thermochronological record of the Eastern Himalaya reflects a variation in exhumation rates with strike. The AFT age pattern in the central Arunachal Himalaya does not match the pattern of precipitation, which suggests an absence of climate-driven tectonic deformation via focused erosion.
Abstract This study reports, for the first time, Sr and Nd isotope ratios from the mafic rocks in the Manipur Ophiolite Complex (MOC), along with new elemental abundances to show the subduction zone influence. The initial 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios (for t = 127 Ma) range from 0.705230 to 0.709734. The initial 143 Nd/ 144 Nd and ɛ Nd t ( t = 127 Ma) range from 0.512611 to 0.512900 and +2.7 to +8.3, respectively. The high field strength element (HFSE) ratios vary widely, with Nb/Ta ranging from c. 3 to 18 and Zr/Hf ranging from 20 to 41, indicating fluid–rock interaction in the presence of rutile. The correlated variation in the Nd and Sr isotope ratios and the HFSEs, including TiO 2 , reflects the variation in the slab-derived fluids. The light rare earth element (LREE) enriched and flat patterns yielded by the mafic rocks are modelled by varying the degree of melting of the fluid-metasomatized mantle. The subsequent influx of the slab-derived fluid at a greater depth caused the re-melting of the previously depleted wedge to produce the LREE-depleted patterns. We propose that the geochemical variation recorded in the MOC rocks indicates the changing nature of fluid metasomatism of the mantle wedge across the subduction zone with time.
Abstract We studied the zircon U–Pb ages, Hf isotopes, and whole-rock and mineral chemistry of metagranitoids from the Subansiri region of the Eastern Himalaya to constrain their emplacement age, origin and geodynamic evolution. The investigated metagranitoids have high SiO 2 , Na 2 O + K 2 O, Rb, Zr and low Fe 2 O 3 , Nb, Ga/Al ratios with fractionated rare earth element patterns [(Ce/Yb) N = 6.46–42.15] and strong negative Eu anomalies (Eu/Eu* = 0.16–0.44). They are peraluminous (molar A/CNK = 1.04–1.27) and calc-alkaline in nature, with normative corundum (1.04–3.61) and relatively high FeO t /MgO ratios in biotite ( c. 3.38), indicating their affinity with S-type granites. The time of emplacement of the Subansiri metagranitoids is constrained by zircon U–Pb ages between 516 and 486 Ma. The zircon grains have negative ε Hf ( t ) values ranging from −1.4 to −12.7 and yield crustal Hf model ages from 1.5 to 2.2 Ga, suggesting the occurrence of a major crustal growth event in the Proterozoic and re-melting of the crust during the early Paleozoic. The geochemical data in conjunction with the U–Pb ages and Hf isotope data suggest that the Subansiri metagranitoids were produced by partial melting of older metasedimentary rocks in the Indian passive margin.
Abstract Felsic magmatic bodies are exposed widely in the Bomdila region of the western Arunachal Himalaya, NE India. The litho-units of this region are primarily composed of two-mica (muscovite–biotite (ms–bt)) granite gneiss, referred to herein as the Bomdila granite gneiss (BGGn), and the metasediments of the Bomdila Group forming an integral part of the NE Lesser Himalayan thrust sheet. Phase petrology, whole-rock elemental geochemistry and zircon U–Pb–Lu–Hf isotopes of the BGGn have been investigated in order to decipher the origin and timing of felsic magmatism and its implications for understanding the pre-Himalayan tectonic environment. Modally, the BGGn can be classified into monzogranite, syenogranite and quartz-rich granitoids. The composition of muscovite (Ti = 0.03–0.07, average Na = 0.07 and Al IV = 2.50–2.90 apfu), biotite (FeO t /MgO = 3.1–4.6, 2Al⇌3Fe and Mg⇌Fe substitutions, and the presence of siderophyllite) and tourmaline (Fe/Fe + Mg = 0.56–0.96, Ca < 0.17 apfu) implies their primary magmatic nature crystallized typically in a peraluminous (S-type) felsic parental melt. This is further supported by the presence of ms–bt, whole-rock molar Al 2 O 3 /CaO + Na 2 O + K 2 O (A/CNK = 1.03–1.64) and normative corundum. Whole-rock multi-cationic parameters indicate a syn-collisional tectonic environment. However, the content of Rb (average 300 ppm) and high-field strength elements (HFSEs) in the BGGn indicates syn- to post-collisional tectonic settings. The BGGn parental melt was most likely to have been generated by dehydration melting of metasedimentary sources at middle–upper crustal depths. Geochemical modelling constrains the evolution of the parental melt of the BGGn by a moderate degree of fractional differentiation ( F = 0.45) involving a biotite–plagioclase–K-feldspar–muscovite–titanite–apatite (bt–pl–Kfs–ms–ttn–ap) assemblage. Laser ablation-multicollector-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-MC-ICP-MS)-analysed zircons from the BGGn yield a weighted mean 207 Pb/ 206 Pb age of 1752 ± 23 Ma as the crystallization age for the zircons in the BGGn melt, which falls well within the period of magmatism formed during the Columbia supercontinent accretionary orogen. The observed negative ε Hf (t) values (−1.67 to −7.99) and three-stage Hf-model ages (2818, 2586–2424 and 2393–2250 Ma) of zircons, strongly point to the involvement of ancient continental crust and source heterogeneity (Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic continental crust) in the generation of the BGGn melt. The reworked ancient crustal components would have once been part of the northern Indian lithosphere, as indicated by the observed 207 Pb/ 206 Pb concordant ages (2436, 2136, 2013 Ma) of the inherited zircons.