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1 Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee - 247 667, IN
2 Laboratory for Isotope Geology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE- 104 05 Stockholm, SE
3 Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavagen 16, SE-752 36, Uppsala, SE
4 Department of Lithosphere and Biosphere Science, Solvegatan 12, SE-223 62, Lund, SE
5 Institute Instrumentation Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247 667, IN
Source
Journal of Geological Society of India (Online archive from Vol 1 to Vol 78), Vol 67, No 3 (2006), Pagination: 295-300
Abstract
Along the Sutlej valley, the lower package of the Higher Himalayan Crystallines (HHC) exposes a small concordant to discordant intrusive grey granite -The Maglad Khad Granite, within garnet mica schist/Banded gneiss of the Jeori Formation. This body is fine grained and foliated along the margins, whereas the central part is relatively undeformed. This body along with aplites and pegmatites intrudes the country rock during early to syn-D1 deformation. This is later affected by the most pervasive D2-deformation producing gneissosity within the granite. U-Pb dating of zircons by conventional isotopic dilution technique yield an upper intercept age of 2068±5 Ma (2σ) from 6 zircon-Fractions with MSWD=0.93, constraining the age of crystallization in the basal parts of the HHC during Early Proterozoic as well as the constraining pre-Himalayan fabric development.
Keywords
Higher Himalayan Crystallines, Maglad Khad Granite, Geochronology, U-Pb Zircon Dating, Sutlej Valley, Himachal Pradesh.
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