Crustal melt granites and migmatites along the Himalaya: melt source, segregation, transport and granite emplacement mechanisms
India–Asia collision resulted in crustal thickening and shortening, metamorphism and partial melting along the 2200 km-long Himalayan range. In the core of the Greater Himalaya, widespread in situ partial melting in sillimanite+K-feldspar gneisses resulted in formation of migmatites and Ms+Bt+Grt+Tu...
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Cambridge University Press
2009
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