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Eclogites and other high-pressure rocks in the Himalaya: a review

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O'Brien, Patrick J.·2019·Geological Society, London, Special Publications
DOI 10.1144/sp483.13
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Himalayan high-pressure metamorphic rocks are restricted to three environments: the suture zone; close to the suture zone; and (mostly) far (>100 km) from the suture zone. In the NW Himalaya and South Tibet, Cretaceous-age blueschists (glaucophane-, lawsonite- or carpholite-bearing schists) formed in the accretionary wedge of the subducting Neo-Tethys. Microdiamond and associated phases from suture-zone ophiolites (Luobusa and Nidar) are, however, unrelated to Himalayan subduction–collision processes. Deeply subducted and rapidly exhumed Indian Plate basement and cover rocks directly adjacent to the suture zone enclose eclogites of Eocene age, some coesite-bearing (Kaghan/Neelum and Tso Morari), formed from Permian Panjal Trap, continental-type, basaltic magmatic rocks. Eclogites with a granulite-facies overprint, yielding Oligocene–Miocene ages, occur in the anatectic cordierite ± sillimanite-grade Indian Plate mostly significantly south of the suture zone (Kharta/Ama Drime/Arun, north Sikkim and NW Bhutan) but also directly at the suture zone at Namche Barwa. The sequence carpholite-, coesite-, kyanite- and cordierite-bearing rocks of these different units demonstrates the transition from oceanic subduction to continental collision via continental subduction. The granulitized eclogites in anatectic gneisses preserve evidence of former thick crust as in other wide hot orogens, such as the European Variscides.

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  • Near-complete granulitization of eclogite documented from the Himalaya is kinetically promoted by rehydration during exhumation through the crust.

    “Nearcomplete granulitization of eclogite has been documented from the Himalaya (e.g.O'Brien, 2018), and is kinetically promoted by rehydration during exhumation through the crust”

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O'Brien, P. J.
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O'Brien, Patrick J.
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Geological Society, London, Special Publications
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Geological Society of London
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2018-12-03
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483
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1
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183-213
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  • 0305-8719 (ISSN-L)
  • 2041-4927
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10.1144/sp483.13
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  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geology › Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
Keywords
eclogite, high-pressure metamorphism, blueschist, Neo-Tethys subduction, accretionary prism, microdiamonds, ophiolite, coesite, granulite facies, partial melting, continental collision, oceanic subduction, continental subduction, Himalaya

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