Field relationships and geochemistry of pre-collisional (India-Asia) granitoid magmatism in the central Karakoram, northern Pakistan

Geodynamic significance of granitoid magmatism in the southeast Anatolian orogen: geochemical and geochronogical evidence from Göksun–Afşin (Kahramanmaraş, Turkey) region

“…Volcanic arc granitoids related to subduction of the Neotethys in Turkey are also reported from the Pontide belt (Arslan et al 2004;Karslı et al 2004;Boztug˘et al 2004). Further east along the Neotethyan belt, a similar history of intraoceanic accretion and later marginal arc magmatism of Cretaceous age is recorded in the KohistanKarakorum-Himalayas area (Crawford and Searle 1992;Debon et al 1987;Petterson and Windley 1985;Rolland et al 2002).…”

Petrographic features as an effective indicator for the variation in strength of granites

“…The northern sedimentary belt is characterized by Ordovician to Early Cretaceous sedimentary rocks (Gaetani and Garzanti, 1991). Variety of metasedimentary and metaigneous rocks with fold and thrust-related culminations, multiphase metamorphism and deformation have been recognized in southern metamorphic complex (Searle, 1986;Searle and Tirrul, 1991;Searle et al, 1992). Early…”

“…Miocene Baltoro granite in central and eastern Karakoram form one of the major unit of the Karakoram batholith which includes monzogranites and garnet bearing two-mica leucogranites (Parrish and Tirrul, 1989;Searle et at., 1992). The batholith also includes a number of pre-collisional hornblende and biotite-bearing granodiorites and tonalites (Searle et al, 1989;Crawford and Searle, 1992).…”

“…The batholith also includes a number of pre-collisional hornblende and biotite-bearing granodiorites and tonalites (Searle et al, 1989;Crawford and Searle, 1992).…”

Geological investigations at a high altitude, remote coal mine on the Northwest Pakistan and Afghanistan frontier, Karakoram Himalaya

“…The Karakoram Range belongs to a Gondwanian segment of continental crust which was rifted away from the Gondwana continent during Late Palaeozoic, and accreted Gaetani et al, 1990). along the southern Eurasian margin before final collision with the Indian plate (Gaetani et al, 1990(Gaetani et al, , 1993Searle, 1991;Treloar and Searle, 1993;Crawford and Searle, 1992). The Karakoram Range is located between two major suture zones; the Shyok Suture Zone to the south (Coward et al, 1986;Pudsey et al, 1985;Searle, 1991) and the Rushan-Pshart Suture to the north (Shovolman, 1981).…”