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Dome Formation During Crustal Extension In The Himalaya: Kinematic And Pressure-Temperature-Time-Deformation Constraints On Extensional Exhumation Along The Southern Margin Of The Tibetan Plateau, Jackie M. Langille

Doctoral Dissertations

The Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau were built by a combination of south-directed thrusting, north-directed extension, and generally east-west-directed extension within the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau all to accommodate convergence between the Indian and Eurasian plates that began in the Eocene. Normal-sense shear zones that accommodate roughly east-west-directed extension across the southern margin of the Himalaya have exhumed young metamorphic domes across the Himalayan front. These metamorphic domes contain high-grade metamorphic rocks bound by normal-sense shear zones. The purpose of this study is to evaluate how these normal-sense shear zones develop and how they exhume metamorphic domes, which remains poorly understood …