Exhumation history of eastern Ladakh revealed by 40Ar/39Ar and fission-track ages: the Indus River-Tso Morari transect, NW Himalaya

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Title
Exhumation history of eastern Ladakh revealed by 40Ar/39Ar and fission-track ages: the Indus River-Tso Morari transect, NW Himalaya
Journal
Journal of the Geological Society
Author(s)
Schlup M., Carter A., Cosca M.A, Steck A.
ISSN-L
0016-7649
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Published
Issued date
2003
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
160
Pages
385-399
Language
english
Abstract
Fission-track and (40)Ar/(39)Ar ages place time constraints on the
exhumation of the North Himalayan nappe stack, the Indus Suture Zone and
Molasse, and the Transhimalayan Batholith in eastern Ladakh (NW India).
Results from this and previous studies on a north-south transect passing
near Tso Morari Lake suggest that the SW-directed North Himalayan nappe
stack (comprising the Mata, Tetraogal and Tso Morari nappes) was
emplaced and metamorphosed by c. 50-45 Ma, and exhumed to moderately
shallow depths (c. 10 km) by c. 45-40 Ma. From the mid-Eocene to the
present, exhumation continued at a steady and slow rate except for the
root zone of the Tso Morari nappe, which cooled faster than the rest of
the nappe stack. Rapid cooling occurred at c. 20 Ma and is linked to
brittle deformation along the normal Ribil-Zildat Fault concomitant with
extrusion of the Crystalline nappe in the south. Data from the Indus
Molasse suggest that sediments were still being deposited during the
Miocene.
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