The onset of mountain building in the western part of the Himalayan orogenic belt has been documented in the synorogenic stratigraphic record of northern Pakistan and India as Early to Middle Eocene (similar to52 Ma). Eocene strata in the Tethyan portion of the central part of the Himalayan orogenic belt consist of shallow marine carbonate rocks that lack evidence for initial Himalayan orogenesis, thus leaving open the possibility that the onset of orogeny was significantly diachronous along strike. We report U-Pb ages of detrital zircons and Nd-isotopic and trace element data from associated mudrocks in Cretaceous-Paleocene(?), Eocene, and lower Miocene strata of the southern Lesser Himalayan zone of central Nepal. The Cretaceous-Paleocene(?) Amile Formation is dominated by zircons with Archean-Early Proterozoic U-Pb ages. An abrupt influx of Cambrian-Ordovician and Middle to Late Proterozoic zircons marks the transition into the Eocene Bhainskati Formation, and indicates the onset of erosion of Tethyan rocks in the nascent Himalayan thrust belt. An increased proportion of Late Proterozoic zircons in fluvial litharenites of the lower Miocene Dumri Formation signals initial erosion of Greater Himalayan protoliths. The Nd-isotopic and trace element data support the unroofing history documented by the U-Pb zircon ages. The fact that middle Eocene strata in Nepal were derived from the Himalayan thrust belt reduces the maximum time lag between the onset of orogenesis in the northwest and central Himalaya to no more than similar to2 My. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Decelles, P., Gehrels, G., Najman, Y., Martin, A., Carter, A., Garzanti, E. (2004). Detrital geochronology and geochemistry of Cretaceous-Early Miocene strata of Nepal: implications for timing and diachroneity of initial Himalayan orogenesis. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 227(3-4), 313-330 [10.1016/j.epsl.2004.08.019].

Detrital geochronology and geochemistry of Cretaceous-Early Miocene strata of Nepal: implications for timing and diachroneity of initial Himalayan orogenesis

GARZANTI, EDUARDO
2004

Abstract

The onset of mountain building in the western part of the Himalayan orogenic belt has been documented in the synorogenic stratigraphic record of northern Pakistan and India as Early to Middle Eocene (similar to52 Ma). Eocene strata in the Tethyan portion of the central part of the Himalayan orogenic belt consist of shallow marine carbonate rocks that lack evidence for initial Himalayan orogenesis, thus leaving open the possibility that the onset of orogeny was significantly diachronous along strike. We report U-Pb ages of detrital zircons and Nd-isotopic and trace element data from associated mudrocks in Cretaceous-Paleocene(?), Eocene, and lower Miocene strata of the southern Lesser Himalayan zone of central Nepal. The Cretaceous-Paleocene(?) Amile Formation is dominated by zircons with Archean-Early Proterozoic U-Pb ages. An abrupt influx of Cambrian-Ordovician and Middle to Late Proterozoic zircons marks the transition into the Eocene Bhainskati Formation, and indicates the onset of erosion of Tethyan rocks in the nascent Himalayan thrust belt. An increased proportion of Late Proterozoic zircons in fluvial litharenites of the lower Miocene Dumri Formation signals initial erosion of Greater Himalayan protoliths. The Nd-isotopic and trace element data support the unroofing history documented by the U-Pb zircon ages. The fact that middle Eocene strata in Nepal were derived from the Himalayan thrust belt reduces the maximum time lag between the onset of orogenesis in the northwest and central Himalaya to no more than similar to2 My. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
Himalaya; collision orogeny; sediment province; detrital zircons; Nd-isotopes
English
2004
227
3-4
313
330
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Decelles, P., Gehrels, G., Najman, Y., Martin, A., Carter, A., Garzanti, E. (2004). Detrital geochronology and geochemistry of Cretaceous-Early Miocene strata of Nepal: implications for timing and diachroneity of initial Himalayan orogenesis. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 227(3-4), 313-330 [10.1016/j.epsl.2004.08.019].
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