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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Tectonic suture in southern Tibet and across the north margin of the Himalayas where the Indian and Eurasian plates meet}}<br />
[[File:2 2 himal tecto units.png|thumb|300px|Map of the Himalaya region. Green is the Indus-Yarlung suture zone]]<br />
[[File:CoupeHimal2.jpg|thumb|300px|Cross section of the Himalaya, the suture zone is shown in green]]<br />
[[Image:MtKailash location.png|thumb|right|Location of [[Mount Kailash|Mt. Kailash]]. [[Indus River|Indus]]-Yarlung Zangbo suture zone, the [[Yarlung Tsangpo River]] is sometimes called upper [[Brahmaputra River]].]]<br />
The '''Indus-Yarlung suture zone''' or the '''Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo suture''' is a tectonic [[Suture (geology)|suture]] in southern [[Tibet]] and across the north margin of the [[Himalayas]] which resulted from the collision between the [[Indian plate]] and the [[Eurasian plate]] starting about 52 Ma.<ref>Age of Initiation of the India-Asia Collision http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~rowley/Rowley/Collision_Age.html </ref> The north side of the suture zone is the [[Ladakh Batholith]] of the [[Karakoram-Lhasa Block]]. The rocks of the suture zone consist of an [[ophiolite]] [[mélange]]s composed of [[Neotethys]] [[oceanic crust]]al [[flysch]]s and ophiolites; the [[Dras Volcanics]]: which are [[basalt]]s, [[dacite]]s and minor [[radiolarian chert]]s – the remains of a mid- to late [[Mesozoic]] volcanic [[island arc]]; and the Indus [[Molasse]] which are an [[Eocene]] or later continental clastic sediments.<ref>Dèzes, Pierre, 1999, ''Major tectonic subdivisions of the Himalaya'' {{cite web |url=http://comp1.geol.unibas.ch/~zanskar/CHAPITRE2/page24.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-02-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106105812/http://comp1.geol.unibas.ch/~zanskar/CHAPITRE2/page24.html |archive-date=2010-01-06 }}</ref><br />
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The ophiolite which can be found here is not a remnant of a very big ocean, but of a small [[back-arc basin]] structure.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Bédard | first1 = É. | last2 = Hébert | first2 = R. | last3 = Guilmette | first3 = C. | last4 = Lesage | first4 = G. | last5 = Wang | first5 = C.S. | last6 = Dostal | first6 = J. | year = 2009 | title = Petrology and geochemistry of the Saga and Sangsang ophiolitic massifs, Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone, Southern Tibet: Evidence for an arc–back-arc origin | journal = [[Lithos (journal)|Lithos]] | volume = 113 | issue = 1–2| pages = 48–67 | doi = 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.01.011 | bibcode = 2009Litho.113...48B }}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*{{annotated link|Geology of the Himalaya}}<br />
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