himalaya

The uplift history of the Himalaya and Tibet is crucial to understanding both the geodynamic evolution of the orogen and its influence on the Asian climate system. Here we reconstruct paleoelevation in the northern Himalaya using the hydrogen isotope composition (δD) of synkinem…

Rocks exposed south of the MMT in the lower Swat terrane, Pakistan represent the northernmost margin of the Indian plate. These rocks comprise Precambrian-Cambrian(?) basement gneiss (Swat Gneisses) and Paleozoic cover-sequence (Alpurai Group metasediments). Anatectic tourmaline…

The research presented in this dissertation examines how the relative dominance of silicate versus carbonate weathering varies both spatially and temporally in two rapidly uplifting, young orogenic belts—the Himalaya Mountains and the New Zealand Southern Alps. Silicate rocks in…