Age of crustal melting, emplacement and exhumation history of the Shivling leucogranite, Garhwal Himalaya

We report a U-Pb monazite age of 23.0 ± 0.2 Ma for the Shivling leucogranite, a tourmaline + muscovite ± biotite leucogranite at the top of the High Himalayan slab in the Garhwal Himalaya, north India. The Shivling-Bhagirathi leucogranite is a viscous near-minimum melt, emplaced as a foliation paral...

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Main Authors: Searle, M, Noble, SR, Hurford, A, Rex, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1999