Sheared garnet and torumaline bearing-leucogranite dyke in diopside-garnet calc-silicate gneiss. Uppermost part of the Greater Himalayan Sequence below the South Tibetan Detachment System. Kaligandaky valley, Central Nepal. Photo ID 677
Sheared garnet and torumaline bearing-leucogranite dyke in diopside-garnet calc-silicate gneiss. Uppermost part of the Greater Himalayan Sequence below the South Tibetan Detachment System. Kaligandaky valley, Central Nepal. Photo ID 677
Photograph: R. Carosi
Reference: Godin, L., Parrish, R.R., Brown, R.L., Hodges, K.V. (2001) – Crustal thickening leading to exhumation of the Himalayan Metamorphic core of central Nepal: insight from U–Pb geochronology and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology. Tectonics 20, 729–747.