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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
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<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1977.041.320.17</article-id>
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<subject>Synopses</subject>
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<article-title>Metamorphism in a Himalayan Thrust Zone</article-title>
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<surname>Roy</surname>
<given-names>S. Sinhan</given-names>
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<aff>Geological Survey of India, Chowringhee Road, Calcutta 700013, India</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>12</month>
<year>1977</year>
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<volume>41</volume>
<issue>320</issue>
<fpage>528</fpage>
<lpage>528</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>13</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>1976</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1977, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1977</copyright-year>
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<title>Synopses</title>
<p><sc>Metamorphic</sc> assemblages from the vicinity of a thrust in the Sikkim to Darjeeling area of the Himalayas contain some of the following minerals: quartz, plagioclase, epidote, sericite, lawsonite, chlorite, stilpnomelane, aragonite, phengite, and pumpellyite. Textural relationships suggest that stilpnomelane replaces pumpellyite and that both of these minerals are replaced by epidote. The assemblage lawsonite-quartz-aragonite appears to have been stable and indicates that a moderate- to high-pressure metamorphism developed coevally with the thrusting. The rocks involved are Proterozoic but it seems likely that the thrusting was Tertiary. The metamorphism associated with the thrusting may have outlasted a more general Tertiary metamorphism or may have been superimposed on a Precambrian event. Either way this is unusual for in general the stratigraphic age of rocks involved in such tectonic zones is not much greater than the age of the metamorphism.</p></abstract>
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