Thermobaric structure of the Himalayan Metamorphic Belt in Kaghan Valley,Pakistan |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (CAGS), Beijing 100037, China;2. Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Uralian Division, RAS, Ekaterinburg 620075, Russia;3. Institute of Geology, Komi Science Center of Uralian Division, RAS, Syktyvkar 167982, Russia;1. CAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;2. Center of Excellence for Comparative Planetology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Hefei 230026, China |
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| Abstract: | The thermobaric structure of the Himalayan Metamorphic Belt (HMB) has been constructed along the Kaghan Valley transect, Pakistan. The HMB in this valley represents mainly the Lesser Himalayan Sequence (LHS) and Higher Himalayan Crystallines (HHC). Mineral parageneses of 474 samples, from an approximately, 80-km traverse from southwest to northeast, were examined. Microprobe analyses were carried out to quantify the mineral composition. To determine the pressure–temperature (P–T) conditions, 65 thin sections (7 pelites from LHS and 25 pelites, 9 mafic rocks/amphibolites and 19 eclogites from HHC) were selected. Based on field observations and mineral paragenesis, low-grade to high-grade metapelites, show Barrovian-type progressive metamorphic sequence, with chlorite, biotite, garnet and staurolite zones in LHS and staurolite, kyanite and sillimanite zones in HHC. By using well-calibrated geothermobarometers, P–T conditions for pelitic and mafic rocks are estimated. P–T estimates for pelitic rocks from the garnet zone indicate a condition of 534 ± 17 °C at 7.6 ± 1.2 kbar. P–T estimates for rocks from the staurolite and kyanite zones indicate average conditions of 526 ± 17 °C at 9.4 ± 1.2 kbar and 657 ± 54 °C at 10 ± 1.6 kbar, respectively. P–T conditions for mafic rocks (amphibolites) and eclogites from HHC are estimated as 645 ± 54 °C at 10.3 ± 2 kbar and 746 ± 59 °C at 15.5 ± 2.1 kbar, respectively. The coesite-bearing ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) eclogites record a peak P–T condition of 757–786 °C at 28.6 ± 0.4 kbar and retrograde P–T conditions of 825 ± 59 °C at 18.1 ± 1.7 kbar.These results suggest that HMB show a gradual increase in metamorphic grade from southwest to northeast. The P–T conditions from Pelitic and adjacent mafic rocks having identical peak conditions in the same metamorphic zone, while the structural middle in HHC reached the highest P–T condition upto the UHP grade. |
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