U-(Th)-Pb systematics and ages of Himalayan leucogranites, South Tibet

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Feb 1986

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 77, Issue 1, p. 35-48.

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The age and origin of five leucogranites from the High and Tethys Himalaya, and two country-rock gneisses were investigated by U-Pb dating of zircon fractions and single grains, and fractions of monazite. Additionally, Th-U concentrations in whole rock powders and isotopic compositions of Pb in leached K-feldspars were determined. Monazites yield ages of 16.8 +/- 0.6 m.y. for the Nialam migmatite-granite, 15.1 +/- 0.5 m.y. for the Lhagoi Kangri granite, 14.3 +/- 0.6 m.y. for a granite from Mt. Everest, and 9.8 +/- 0.7 m.y. and 9.2 +/- 0.9 m.y. for two varieties of the Maja granite. These data, together with monazite ages of 21.9 +/- 0.2 and 24.0 +/- 0.4 m.y., determined earlier on the Makalu granite [1], substantiate a period of intracontinental granite emplacements from 24 to 9 m.y. ago, i.e. from uppermost Oligocene to late Miocene times. Such a period of plutonic activity is consistent with the view that all these granites result from intracrustal melting following the collision of India with Eurasia. Furthermore, the individual ages, together with structural relationships between granites and country rocks suggest that granite formation and tectono-metamorphism occurred as alternating and strongly related processes with a periodicity of 7 to 9 m.y. Inherited lead components, present in all granite zircons point to large proportions of Precambrian material in the magma source regions, up to 2200 m.y. old.
Th-U systematics between monazite and country rocks indicate that U has been leached from most of the granites after crystallisation of monazite.
Zircon dating of the Kangmar granite gneiss, which occurs in a window through the Tethys Himalayan sediments, shows that this pluton, transformed to a gneiss during the Alpine orogeny, crystallised in lowermost Palaeozoic times 562 +/- 4 m.y. ago.

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