Prolonged Partial Melting of Garnet Amphibolite from the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of Large Hot Orogens,Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

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Prolonged Partial Melting of Garnet Amphibolite from the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of Large Hot Orogens
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth ( IF 3.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 , DOI: 10.1029/2019jb019119
Dongyan Kang ₁ , Zeming Zhang _{1,

2} , Richard M. Palin ₃ , Zoulin Tian ₂ , Xin Dong ₂

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The Himalayan orogen, which formed due to collision of the Indian and Asian continents during the Early Tertiary, is a prime example of a large, hot collisional orogen. Despite decades of study, the duration of partial melting of migmatitic rocks exposed in the Himalayan orogenic core remains highly controversial. As such, we have performed detailed petrological and geochronological analyses of garnet amphibolite from the eastern Himalayan syntaxis in order to reveal the thermal conditions, tectonometamorphic mechanisms, and timing and duration of anatexis in metabasic rocks that form a major component of the thickened lower crust of the eastern Himalayan orogen. Phase equilibrium modeling and geothermobarometry show that the studied sample underwent high‐pressure granulite‐facies metamorphism and partial melting at 15−17 kbar and 805−840°C. Dehydration melting of amphibole during prograde metamorphism generated up to 20 vol. % partial melt with a granitic composition, which thus represents a potential source for Himalayan syn‐ to post‐orogenic crustal‐derived granites. Zircon U‐Pb geochronology shows that the garnet amphibolite witnessed a long‐lived anatectic and melt crystallization process lasting more than 30 Myr. Prolonged anatexis from ca. 40 to ca. 20 Ma predates initiation of the extrusion of Himalayan metamorphic core by up to 15 Myr, indicating that the thick and weak crust of the Himalayan‐Tibetan orogen must have remained stationary for this length of time, despite the ongoing continental collision. This study thus provides new insight into the tectonic evolution of hot orogens.

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