James R. Metcalf

TL;DR: Xenoliths of subducted crustal origin hosted by Miocene ultrapotassic igneous rocks in the southern Pamir provide important new information regarding the geological processes accompanying tectonism during the Indo-Eurasian collision as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors pre-sent new petrologic data and radiometric ages from xenoliths in Miocene volcanic rocks in the southeastern Pamir mountains that suggest that Gondwanan igneous and sedimentary assemblages were underthrust northward, buried to.50-80 km during the ear- ly stage of the India-Asia collision, and then heated and partly melted during subsequent thermal relaxation before finally being blasted to the surface.

TL;DR: In this article, the age of the south-central Maladeta plutons is estimated to be ∼ 280 − 280 ǫ Ma, close to the age in the Hercynian orogeny, by using a thermochronology of granodioritic samples collected from a vertical [age-elevation] profile.

TL;DR: The authors used magnetostratigraphic data of the syntectonic continental conglomerates of the South-Central Pyrenees to establish their age as Late Lutetian to Late Oligocene.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a multi-method chronometric approach to study the Siberian Altai basement evolution from the Early Palaeozoic to the present, showing that the basement deformation propagates through Central Asia and Siberia along an inherited structural network closely associated with its basement fabric.