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    The Bangong suture zone is a key location in the central Tibet conjugate fault zone. Approximately 1,200 km long, the suture trends in an east–west orientation...
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  • Bangong may refer to: Bangong Lake, or Pangong Tso, lake at the border of China and India Bangong suture, suture in the central Tibet conjugate fault zone...
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  • Thumbnail for High pressure metamorphic terranes along the Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone
    High pressure terranes along the ~1200 km long east-west trending Bangong-Nujiang suture zone (BNS) on the Tibetan Plateau have been extensively mapped and...
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    the Lhasa terrane merged with its southern margin along the Bangong suture. This suture, the closure of part of the Tethys Ocean, transformed the Qiantang...
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    eventually separated from Gondwana in the Late Jurassic. Today the Bangong suture separates the Lhasa terrane from the Qiangtang terrane. The present...
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  • Thumbnail for Geology of the Himalayas
    Himalayan Thrust. ISZ, also called Indus-Yarlung suture zone, Yarlung-Zangpo Suture Zone or Yarlung-Tsangpo Suture Zone, defines the zone of collision between...
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    the south by the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture, and from the Qiangtang terrane to the north by the Bangong-Nujiang suture. The Lhasa terrane has a Precambrian...
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  • Thumbnail for Transhimalaya
    Terrane. In the north, Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone separates Transhimalaya from the Qiangtang terrane. In the south, Indus-Yarlung suture zone separates it...
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    the south by the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture, and from the Qiangtang terrane to the north by the Bangong-Nujiang suture. The Lhasa terrane consisted of two...
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    moved northward and collided with the Qiangtang terrane along the Bangong-Nujiang suture towards the end of the late Jurassic (c. 163–145). Collision activity...
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    E.; Cour, P.; Sixuan, Hang (1996). "Holocene environmental changes in Bangong Co basin (Western Tibet). Part 2: The pollen record". Palaeogeography,...
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  • be ongoing beneath the Pamir. High pressure terranes along the Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone Eclogitization Subduction zone metamorphism Chopin, C., 1984...
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    via Thakung Heights, Helmet Top, Phursook Bay, till India-claimed-LAC at Bangong Co. Features Helmet Top Black Top Gurung Hill Spanggur Gap Mount Sajum...
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  • responsible for PETM warming. Evidence from Eocene plant fossils from the Bangong-Nujiang suture indicating that the Tibetan Plateau area hosted a diverse subtropical...
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  • Greenwood & Love (2020). Evidence from Eocene plant fossils from the Bangong-Nujiang suture indicating that the Tibetan Plateau area hosted a diverse subtropical...
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