[1] New apatite and zircon fission track and (U-Th)/He analyses serve to document the bedrock cooling history of the central Nepalese Himalaya near the Annapurna Range. We have obtained 82 apatite fission track (AFT), 7 zircon fission track (ZFT), and 7 apatite (U-Th)/He (AHe) ages from samples collected along the Marsyandi drainage, including eight vertical relief profiles from ridges on eithe...

Timing of surface uplift of the Tibetan Plateau has received much attention because of proposed links between high topography and change in regional and global climate, southern Asian paleoecology, and ocean chemistry (Quade et al., 1989; Edmond, 1992; Prell and Kutzbach, 1992; Raymo and Ruddiman, 1992; Molnar et al., 1993; Derry and France-Lanord, 1996). However, the actual vintage of high ele...

The Cenomanian–Turonian boundary (CTB) on the intra-Tethyan Adriatic Carbonate Platform (AdCP) is generally characterised by a transition between microbially laminated and/or bioclastic limestones to calcisphere-rich massive limestone with bioturbated intervals, organic-rich interbeds, firmgrounds, as well neptunian dikes, carbonate turbidites, tempestites and slumped structures. Compilation of...

The Sanjiang Indosinian orogen, located in the eastern part of Paleo-Tethys tectonic domain, is a critical region to study Paleo-Tethyan Ocean evolution. Middle Permian–Late Triassic magmatic rocks are widespread Deqin–Weixi–Madeng area southwestern (SW) yet their petrogenesis and setting remain disputed. In this study, LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb age Hf isotopes, whole-rock elemental Sr-Nd isotope g...

New structural data have been collected in the high-pressure meta-ophiolites exposed Lanzo Valleys (i.e., Ophiolite, LVO) and tectonically overlying continental crust of Dora-Maira Gran Paradiso massifs Western Alps. Detailed geological mapping analysis carried out south-western sector LVO Upper Viù Valley) allow to distinguish four ductile deformation phases, corresponding subduction-related D...