India-Asia collision: A further discussion of N-S- and E-W-trending detachments and the orogenic mechanism of the modern Himalayas.
India-Asia collision: A further discussion of N-S- and E-W-trending detachments and the orogenic mechanism of the modern Himalayas.
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2006
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Cheng Fang-yuan
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Cheng Fang-yuan
India-Asia collision formed the Himalaya accretionary terrane, which is composed from north to south of the Tethys-Himalaya (THM), Greater Himalaya (GHM), Lesser Himalaya (LHM) and Subhimalaya (SHM) subterranes. Comparison of the compositions, metamorphisms and evolutions, deformation mechanisms and formation ages of metamorphic basements and covers in the Himalaya accretionary terrane indicates that the southern Tibet detachment (STD) on the northern margin of the GHM subterrane extends northward beneath the THM subterrane and is connected with the Kangmar-Lhagoi Kangri detachment (KLD) that formed at 650℃ and has the nature of north-directed shear slip motion, and that partial melting of the crust and material upwelling resulted in granite emplacement and uplift of the KLD, forming the Kangmar-Lhagoi Kangri gneiss domes. An E-W-trending subhorizontal ductile detachment (GHD) is found between the metamorphic basement and cover in the northern part (Burang-Gyirong-Nyalam-Yadong area) of the GHM subterrane, which is characterized by E-W stretching lineation and gently dipping mylonitic foliation and shows the east-directed horizontal slip shear sense; whereas near the north side of the Main Central Thrust (MCT) in the southern part of the GHM subterrane there occur ductile strike slip-thrust faults of transpressional nature. From south to north the GHM subterrane has the features of continuous deformation and transition from Thrust→oblique thrust→E-W trending extention→oblique extention→S-N trending extention, which are the response to the composite deformation under the orogenic mechanism of coupling of vertical and lateral extrusions. The existence of the E-W- and N-S-trending detachments in the Himalaya terrane provide a basis for a further discussion of the modern orogenic mechanism of the Himalayas.