Recent Publication Highlights

Rahul Dixit and team, in a recent publication in the Tectonophysics journal, present a detailed structural analysis of the Munsiari and Vaikrita/Main Central thrust zones in the Garhwal Himalayas. Using a shear zone framework, they mapped these thrust zones in a core and damage zone architecture, offering new insights into their structural anatomy. [Click here to read the research paper]

Employing detailed field investigations and U-Pb zircon geochronology, Rahul Dixit and team recently published a research paper in the Gondwana Research journal. They argue that the South Tibetan Detachment System (STDS), Dhauliganga Valley, Garhwal Himalayas, could be a Cambro-Ordovician terrane boundary. [Click here to read the research paper]

A recent research paper in Lithos by Dr Ashima Saikia and team reports the age of an ophiolitic anorthosite for the first-time from the ophiolite occurrences of India. Magmatic zircons from the anorthosite yielded an age of 93.2 ± 1.0 Ma representing the time of ophiolite formation. [Click here to read the research paper]

With the help of thermodynamic modelling, Dr. Anindita Dey and her team show how the combination of multiple factors like unavailibility of fluid, element mobility, and rapid exhumation results in the formation of complex reaction textures like corona in a recent research paper published in the Journal of Petrology. [Click here to read the research paper]