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Tectono-magmatic evolution of the Ladakh and Karakoram, Trans-Himalaya, Northwest India

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This article highlights the recent scientific findings on the petrological and tectono-magmatic studies of ophiolites, blueschists, eclogites, volcanics, and granitoids of the Ladakh and Karakoram, Trans-Himalaya, northwest India. A wealth of mineralogical, petrological, geochemical, geochronological, and isotopic data became available on these diverse tectono-magmatic units. All such studies provided an understanding of the geochemical and geodynamic aspects such as subduction-initiation and cessation, subducting slab-dehydration, mantle-wedge metasomatism and melting, nature of the sub-arc lithospheric mantle, complexity in the active margin magmatism, crust-mantle interaction, and continent–continent amalgamation in the context of the India–Eurasia continental plates.

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We express our thanks to Prof. A. K. Jain for extending the invitation to contribute to this special volume of PINSA. We attempted our best to incorporate as many published works as possible. IMB acknowledges the support from the Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Kashmir. TA acknowledges the support of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi for the J. C. Bose Fellowship.

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    Irfan Maqbool Bhat

  2. Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 110007, India

    Hiredya Chauhan & Talat Ahmad

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Bhat, I.M., Chauhan, H. & Ahmad, T. Tectono-magmatic evolution of the Ladakh and Karakoram, Trans-Himalaya, Northwest India. Proc.Indian Natl. Sci. Acad. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43538-024-00270-5

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