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Higher Himalaya of Arun–Tamar Region

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Geology of the Nepal Himalaya

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Higher Himalayan crystallines of east Nepal connected with Darjeeling Gneiss; Makalu–Arun neighborhood consisting of Barun gneisses passing into overlying Barun migmatites; Miocene granites and Island Peak Complex; black gneisses with violet cordierite; Makalu granite containing biotite and tourmaline with some cordierite; Everest series with dark gneisses and mica schists passing into black phyllites; Everest metapelites and Jolmo Lungma Formation; largest congregation of leucogranites; polyphase metamorphism; orthogneisses developed from early Paleozoic granitoids.

Across the Buranse Dande, on the path down to the Arun river and Leguwa Ghat, occur gneiss at 3,700 feet and biotite-granite at 3,500 feet.

—J.B. Auden (1935, p. 143)

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Dhital, M.R. (2015). Higher Himalaya of Arun–Tamar Region. In: Geology of the Nepal Himalaya. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02496-7_19

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