The configuration and timing of the Arabia-Eurasia continental collision, part broader Alpine-Himalayan collisional system, remains controversial. We conducted sandstone petrology, detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic trace element analysis, Cr-spinel electron microprobe geochemical analysis samples from Paleocene to Miocene peripheral foreland strata in interior Fars, southern Iran. These data wer...

The North American Cordilleran Anatectic Belt (CAB) is a ~3,000 km long region in the hinterland of Cordillera that comprises numerous exposures Late Cretaceous to Eocene intrusive rocks and anatectic associated with crustal melting. As such, it comparable size volume major provinces including Himalayan leucogranite belt. CAB are chiefly peraluminous, muscovite-bearing produced primarily by ana...

[1] The current structure of the South Armorican Domain in the French Variscan Belt, provides an excellent record of the late orogenic evolution, as documented by the complex interactions between extensional structures and partial melting. In the Golfe du Morbihan, the South Brittany Migmatite Belt (SBMB), tectonically overlain by non‐melted metamorphic units, was studied by combined structural...

We present a kinematic model for the Himalayan thrust belt that satisfies structural and metamorphic data and explains recently reported late Miocene–Pliocene geochronologic and thermochronologic ages from rocks in the Main Central thrust zone in central Nepal. At its current exposure level, the Main Central thrust juxtaposes a hanging-wall flat in Greater Himalayan rocks with a footwall flat i...

7 The Tertiary continental strata of the Himalayan foreland basin are subdivided in two 8 groups, but the meaning of this subdivision was previously unclear. From the analysis of drill9 holes, seismic lines, dated sections, field outcrops and balanced cross-sections, we find that the 10 southward migration rate of the deposition pinch-out of the younger group is 19 ± 5 mm/yr and 11 equals the H...

Abstract Orogenic belts have been thought to form through plate convergence, involving subduction of oceanic lithosphere at continental margins (accretionary orogens), which may ultimately lead ocean closure and continent-continent collision (collisional orogens). Intraplate orogens away from known, but the mechanisms controlling their evolution are poorly understood. The South China craton, in...

The sub-Himalayan thrust belt is an active thrust wedge which progresses southward over the northdipping Indian plate. The north–south compression resulted in severe deformation of sedimentary rocks in this belt. Distinct thrust geometries and topography have evolved under the interaction between tectonic and erosional environments. To better understand the relationship between tectonics and to...

A thrust-fold belt consisting of a series thrusts and buckling folds developed in the Mesozoic Cenozoic strata within Kuqa Depression, Tarim Basin. In this study, structural interpretation model Depression is established proto-basin reconstructed on basis outcrop geology along basin margin, seismic, well-log CEMP data. The called ‘delaminate contractional deformation’, which emphasizes decoupli...

Prospectivity modelling has been completed over the Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales, Australia, using the GIS based weights of evidence modelling technique to target porphyry Cu-Au, associated skarn Cu-Au, orogenic Au and VMS Au mineralisation. The Lachlan Fold Belt is a 700 km wide belt of Paleozoic accretionary terrains, stretching from Queensland to Tasmania. Porphyry and skarn mineralisa...