Linked fluid and tectonic evolution in the High Himalaya mountains (Nepal) |
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Authors: | Anne-Marie Boullier Christian France-Lanord Jean Dubessy Jérôme Adamy Michel Champenois |
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Institution: | (1) Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, BP 20, F-54501 Vandoeuvre cedex, France;(2) Centre de Recherche sur la Géologie de l'Uranium, BP23, F-54501 Vandoeuvre cedex, France |
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Abstract: | Fluid inclusions were studied in a quartz lens from the structurally highest unit of the Himalaya mountains in Nepal from a textural, geometrical, chemical and isotopic point of view. Six types of fluid inclusions were distinguished. One of these types consists of annular inclusions; this shape is attributed to a confining pressure increase in a non-isotropic stress field. Two successive stress fields were deduced from the orientation of the inclusion planes relative to the schistosity. The bulk composition of the fluid was dominated by CO2 (>84 mol%) and H2O. The composition remained constant during the whole history of the sample indicating that it was buffered by the carbonaceous host rock and/or that one single fluid was reworked in situ by decrepitation. Stable isotope of fluids and minerals indicate (1) that fluids were buffered by surrounding rocks for O and C and (2) that at least two types of water (metamorphic and meteoric) were involved. Finally, a P-T-t-- path is proposed for the sample, taking into account the southward thrusting along the Main Central Thrust, the northward tectonic denudation of the Himalaya mountains inducing tectonic burying below the Annapurna Range, and lastly, rapid uplift. |
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