Nanga Parbat Continental Dynamics Project
Publications about Nanga Parbat by project members

PAPERS and THESES

Chamberlain, C.P., and Zeitler, P.K., in press. Assembly of the crystalline terranes of

northwestern Himalaya and Karakoram, northwestern Pakistan. Rubey Symposium volume.

Chamberlain, C.P., Zeitler, P.K., Barnett, D.E., Winslow, D., Poulson, S.,

Leahy, T., and Hammer, J.E., in press. Metamorphic hydrothermal systems driven by uplift of the Himalayas. Journal of Geophysical Research.

Chamberlain, C.P., Zeitler, P.K., and Erickson, E., 1991. Constraints on the tectonic

evolution of the northwestern Himalaya from geochronologic and petrologic studies of the Babusar Pass, Pakistan. Journal of Geology, 99, 829-849.

Chamberlain, C.P., Jan, M.Q., and Zeitler, P.K., 1989. A petrologic record of the

collision between the Kohistan island-arc and Indian plate, NW Himalayas, in Malinconico, L.L. and Lillie, eds., Tectonics of the Western Himalayas, Geological Society of America Special Paper 232, p. 23-32.

Chamberlain, C.P., Zeitler, P.K., and Jan, M.Q., 1989. The dynamics of a crustal suture

in the Pakistan Himalaya. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 7, 135-149.

Craw, D., Koons, P.O., Winslow, D.M., Chamberlain, C.P., and Zeitler, P.K.,

in press. Boiling fluids in a region of rapid uplift, Nanga Parbat Massif, Pakistan. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Leahy, T., 1993. Fluid flow, metamorphism, and magmatism at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan

Himalaya, M.S. Thesis, Dartmouth College, 60 p.

Shroder, J.F. jr.1993. Himalaya to the sea: Geomorphology and Quaternary of Pakistan

in the regional context. in Himalaya to the Sea (Schroder, J.F. jr. ed.) Routledge, London, 429pp.

Shroder, J.F., Khan, M.S., Lawrence, R.D., Madin, I.P., and Higgins, S., 1989.

Quaternary glacial chronology and neotectonics in the Himalaya of northern Pakistan, in Malinconico, L.L. and Lillie, R.J., Eds., Tectonics of the Western Himalayas, Geological Society of America Special Paper 232, p. 275-294.

Smith, H.A., Chamberlain, C.P., and Zeitler, P.K., 1992. Documentation of Neogene

regional metamorphism in the Himalayas of Pakistan using U-Pb in monazite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 113, 93-105.

Warner, L.F., 1993. Variable denudation of the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh Massif. A fission

-track study of the Tato Valley, Pakistan. Unpub. B.S. thesis, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), 20 pp.

Winslow, D.M., Zeitler, P.K., Chamberlain, C.P., and Hollister, L.S., 1994. Direct

evidence for a steep geotherm under conditions of rapid denudation, western Himalaya, Pakistan. Geology, 22, 1075-1078.

Winslow, D.M., Chamberlain, C.P., and Zeitler, P.K., in press. Metamorphism and

melting of the lithosphere due to rapid denudation, Nanga Parbat Massif, Himalaya. Journal of Geology.

Winslow, D.M., Zeitler, P.K., Chamberlain, C.P., and Williams, I.S., in prep.,

Geochronologic constraints on syntaxial development in the Nanga Parbat region, Pakistan. Thesis chapter/ms. to be defended 1/24/95.

Zeitler, P.K. and Chamberlain, C.P., 1991. Petrogenetic and tectonic significance of

young leucogranites from the northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan.Tectonics, 10, 729-741.

Zeitler, P.K., Chamberlain, C.P., and Smith, H.A., 1993. Synchronous anatexis,

metamorphism, and rapid denudation at Nanga Parbat (Pakistan Himalaya). Geology, 21, 347-350.

Zeitler, P.K., Sutter, J.F., Williams, I., Zartman, R.E., and Tahirkheli, R.A.K.,

1989. Geochronology and temperature history of the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh Massif, Pakistan, in Malinconico, L.L. and Lillie, eds., Tectonics of the Western Himalayas,Geological Society of America Special Paper 232, p. 1-22.

Zeitler, P.K., Johnson, N.M., Naeser C.W., and Tahirkheli, R.A.K., 1982.

Fission-track evidence for the Quaternary uplift of the Nanga Parbat region, Pakistan. Nature, 298, 255-257.

ABSTRACTS

Barnett, D.E., Chamberlain, C.P., and Zeitler, P.K., 1991. Oxygen isotope constraints on

the genesis of young (< 5 Ma) leucogranites from the Nanga Parbat Haramosh Massif. Eos Trans. AGU (Supplement), 72, 525.

Chamberlain, C.P., Kraw, D., Koons, P.O., Winslow, D., and Zeitler, P.K., 1993.

Coupled compression and extension in the NW Himalaya. Proceedings, Conference on Late Orogenic Extension in Mountain Belts (Montpellier, France), BGRM Document no. 219, p. 42.

Chamberlain, C.P., and Zeitler, P.K., 1992. Oxygen isotope systematics of zircon.

Eos Trans. AGU (Supplement), 73, 370.

Chamberlain, C. P.; Zeitler, P. K.; Winslow, D., 1992. Metamorphic hydrothermal systems

associated with the rapid denudation of the Pakistan Himalaya. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. Prog., 24, A112.

Chamberlain C.P, Zeitler P.K., and Jan M.Q., 1986. Pressure-temperature-time paths in

the Nanga Parbat Massif: Constraints on the tectonic development of the northwest Himalayas. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. Prog., 18, 561.

Smith, H.A., Chamberlain, C.P., Allen, T.A., and Zeitler, P.K., 1993.

Relationship between deformation and monazite ages: two counter-examples in the Himalaya. Eos Trans. AGU (Supplement), 74, 123.

Smith, H.A., Chamberlain, C.P., and Zeitler, P.K., 1990. Young monazite U-Pb ages

from schists in the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis, Himalayas, northwestern Pakistan. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. Prog., 22, 97.

Smith, H.A., Chamberlain, C.P., and Zeitler, P.K., 1990. Young monazite ages from

schists: dating metamorphism in the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis, Himalayas, northwestern Pakistan [abstract]. International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology, and Isotope Geochemistry, Canberra, Australia, 25 Sept., 1990.

Winslow, D., M., Zeitler, P.K., and Chamberlain, C.P., 1993a. Combined 40Ar/39Ar

biotite cooling ages and fluid inclusion data from Nanga Parbat (Pakistan Himalaya). An indication of the depth to paleoisotherms with time. Eos Trans. AGU (Supplement), 74, 301.

Winslow, D.M., Zeitler, P.K., and Chamberlain, C.P., 1993b. Characterization of

Neogene metamorphism in the polymetamorphic Nanga Parbat syntaxis.Geol. Soc. America Abstr. Prog., 25, 6.

Winslow, D.M., Zeitler, P.K., and Chamberlain, C.P., 1993c. Petrology, thermo-

chronology, and fluid inclusions: Implications for the denudation and metamorphic history of the Nanga Parbat region, Pakistan. Eos Trans. AGU (Supplement), 74, 301.

Winslow, D.M., Zeitler, P.K., and Chamberlain, C.P., 1994. Differential cooling

within the Nanga Parbat massif, Pakistan Himalaya: implications for syntaxial development. Geol. Soc. America Asbtr. Prog., 26 (7), A-136.

Winslow, D.M., Zeitler, P.K., and Chamberlain, C.P., 1994. Petrology, thermo-

chronology, and fluid inclusions: Implications for the denudation and metamorphic history of the Nanga Parbat region, Himalaya. Eos Trans. AGU (Supplement), 75 (16), 186.

Zeitler, P.K., 1994. Active tectonic processes in the NW Himalaya. Eos Trans. AGU

(Supplement), 75 (44), 184.

Zeitler, P.K., and Chamberlain, C.P., 1991. Quaternary anatexis at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan.

Geol. Soc. America Abstr. Prog., 23, A135.

Zeitler, P.K. and Chamberlain, C.P., 1990. U-Pb dating of very young leucogranites

(NW Himalayas) using an ion microprobe. International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology, and Isotope Geochemistry, Canberra, Australia, 25 Sept., 1990.

Zeitler, P.K. and Williams, I.S.W., 1988. U-Pb dating of metamorphic zircon over-

growths by means of depth profiling with an ion microprobe. EOS, 69, 464.

Zeitler, P.K., and 21 others., 1994. Crustal reworking during orogeny: an active-system

Himalayan perspective. Program, ILIAD Workshop (Taos, New Mexico, 5-9 November, 1994).

Zeitler, P.K., Chamberlain, C.P., and Smith, H.A., 1992. Quaternary anatexis and

Neogene metamorphism at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan. Proceedings, 7th Himalayan-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop (Oxford University, 6-8 April, 1992).

Zeitler, P.K., Chamberlain, C.P., and Smith, H.A., 1990. Very young U-Pb ages from

zircons and monazites of the Nanga Parbat Massif, Pakistan: implications for metamorphic processes. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. Prog., 22, 97.

Zeitler P.K., Sutter, J.F., Williams, I.S., Zartman, R.E., and Tahirkheli,

R.A.K., 1986. Geochronology and cooling history of the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh Massif, Pakistan. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. Prog., 18, 800.

Zeitler P.K., Sutter J., Naeser C.W., Johnson N.M. and Tahirkheli R.A.K.,

1982. Tectonic terranes in northern Pakistan have differing cooling histories. Eos Trans. AGU (Supplement), 63, 1125.

Zeitler P.K., Johnson N.M., Tahirkheli R.A.K. and Naeser C.W., 1981. Rapid

uplift/erosion rates in the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh area as determined from fission-track data. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. Prog., 13, 587.