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Age of metamorphism in the Lesser Himalaya and the Main Central Thrust zone, Garhwal India: results of illite crystallinity, 40Ar–39Ar fusion and K–Ar studies

  • G. J. H. Oliver (a1), M. R. W. Johnson (a2) and A. E. Fallick (a3)
Abstract

Illite crystallinity data from the Lesser Himalaya of Garhwal show that the upper Paleocene-lower Eocene Subathu Formation, deposited immediately prior to or early in the Himalayan collision, has not suffered significant regional metamorphism. The regional metamorphism in the upper Precambrian–lower Palaeozoic Lesser Himalaya must therefore be precollisional. Illite crystallinity results from Lesser Himalayan fossiliferous Permian strata show grades of metamorphism intermediate between upper Paleocene–lower Eocene and Proterozoic–lower Palaeozoic strata indicating a pre-Permian regional metamorphism for the latter.

K–Ar whole rock cooling ages provide supporting evidence for pre-collisional regional metamorphism in the Lesser Himalaya. Slates and phyllites below the Main Central Thrust (MCT) show pre-Cenozoic whole rock ages, as old as Ordovician (486 Ma). Whilst resetting of K–Ar whole rock ages has occurred locally in pervasively cleaved Palaeozoic strata (near thrusts?), fracture cleaved Permian and upper Paleocene–lower Eocene sediments give whole rock ages compatible with diagenesis. The illite crystallinity results confirm that these sediments have not been heated above mica blocking temperatures.

Muscovite 40Ar–39Ar and K–Ar mineral ages within the 5 km thick MCT zone are as young as 8 Ma indicating that temperatures of above ~ 350°C were maintained in the MCT zone for over 10 Ma after high temperature (~ 550°C) shearing on the MCT. This heating did not affect the MCT footwall Lesser Himalaya to any regional extent, where pre-Permian low grade regional metamorphism has not been overprinted.

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