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Metamorphic reactions related to decompression and synkinematic intrusion of leucogranite, High Himalayan Crystallines, Bhutan
Author(s) -
DAVIDSON C.,
CRUJIC D. E.,
HOLLISTER L. S.,
SCHMID S. M.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of metamorphic geology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.639
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1525-1314
pISSN - 0263-4929
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1314.1997.tb00638.x
Subject(s) - leucogranite , geology , sill , metamorphic rock , geochemistry , intrusion , shear (geology) , petrology , gneiss
The High Himalayan Crystallines (HHC) of Bhutan were penetratively deformed, intruded by leucogranite and metamorphosed during the collision of the Indian and Asian plates. Metamorphic reaction textures in the HHC show that it experienced decompression while maintaining a laterally heterogeneous, and locally inverted, internal temperature range of c. 600–750C. This thermal structure was produced by thrusting hot, migmatitic rocks over lower‐grade rocks within the HHC and by the advection of heat from the intrusion of leucogranite dykes and sills during decompression. A variable velocity field within the HHC during exhumation and extrusion between India and Tibet caused the inversion of top to the south sense of shear present throughout most of the HHC to top down to the north shear near its top.