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[1] The Mogok metamorphic belt (MMB) extends for over 1500 km along the western margin of the ShanThai block, from the Andaman Sea north to the eastern Himalayan syntaxis. Previous geochronology has suggested that a long-lasting Jurassic-early Cretaceous subduction-related event resulted in emplacement of granodiorites and orthogneisses (171-120 Ma) and a poorly constrained Tertiary metamorphic event. On the basis of new U-Pb isotope dilution thermal ionization mass spectrometry and U-Th-Pb laser ablationmulticollector-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer geochronology presented here, we propose two Tertiary metamorphic events affected the MMB in Burma. The first was a Paleocene event that ended with intrusion of crosscutting postkinematic biotite granite dikes at $59 Ma. A second metamorphic event spanned late Eocene to Oligocene (at least from 37, possibly 47, to 29 Ma). This resulted in the growth of metamorphic monazite at sillimanite grade, growth of zircon rims at 47-43 Ma, sillimanite + muscovite replacing older andalusite, and synmetamorphic melting producing garnet and tourmaline bearing leucogranites at 45.5 ± 0.6 Ma and 24.5 ± 0.7 Ma. These data imply high-temperature sillimanite + muscovite metamorphism peaking at 680°C and 4.9 kbar between 45 and 33 Ma, to around 606-656°C and 4.4-4.8 kbar at 29.3 ± 0.5 Ma. The later metamorphic event is older than 24.5 ± 0.3 Ma, the age of leucogranites that crosscut all earlier fabrics. Our structural and geochronological data suggest that the MMB links north to the unexposed middle or lower crust rocks of the Lhasa terrane, south Tibet, and east to high-grade metamorphic core complexes in northwest Thailand.

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[1] The Ama Drime Massif (ADM) is an elongate north-south trending antiformal feature that extends $70 km north across the crest of the South Tibetan Himalaya and offsets the position of the South Tibetan Detachment system. A detailed U(-Th)-Pb geochronologic study of granulitized mafic eclogites and associated rocks from the footwall of the ADM yields important insights into the middle to late Miocene tectonic evolution of the Himalayan orogen. The mafic igneous precursor to the granulitized eclogites is 986.6 ± 1.8 Ma and was intruded into the paleoproterozoic (1799 ± 9 Ma) Ama Drime orthogneiss, the latter being similar in age to rocks previously assigned to the Lesser Himalayan Series in the Himalayan foreland. The original eclogite-facies mineral assemblage in the mafic rocks has been strongly overprinted by granulite facies metamorphism at 750°C and 0.7-0.8 GPa. In the host Ama Drime orthogneiss, the granulite event is correlated with synkinematic sillimanite-grade metamorphism and muscovite dehydration melting. Monazite and xenotime ages indicate that the granulite metamorphism and associated anatexis occurred at <13.2 ± 1.4 Ma. High-grade metamorphism was followed by postkinematic leucogranite dyke emplacement at 11.6 ± 0.4 Ma. This integrated data set indicates that high-temperature metamorphism, decompression, and exhumation of the ADM postdates mid-Miocene south directed midcrustal extrusion and is kinematically linked to orogen-parallel extension. Citation: Cottle,

To constrain deep (40-100 km) subduction dynamics, extensive P-T data are provided on the eclogitic Monviso ophiolite derived from the subducted Liguro-Piemontese oceanic lithosphere (which was exhumed, together with associated continental units, before the Alpine collision). The Monviso ophiolite has so far been interpreted either as a fossilized subduction channel, with tectonic blocks detached from the slab at different depths and gathered in a weak serpentinized matrix, or as a more or less continuous portion of oceanic lithosphere. To evaluate potential heterogeneities within and between the various subunits, extensive sampling was undertaken on metasedimentary rocks and Fe-Ti metagabbros. The results indicate that the Monviso ophiolite comprises two main coherent tectonic subunits (the Monviso and Lago Superiore Units) detached during subduction at different depths and later juxtaposed at epidote-blueschist facies during exhumation along the subduction interface. Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material suggests (i) a difference in peak temperature of 50°C between these two subunits and (ii) a good temperature homogeneity within each subunit. Pseudosections and average P-T estimates using THERMOCALC THERMOCALC in the Lago Superiore Unit suggest for the first time homogeneous HP to UHP conditions (550°C, 26-27 kbar). Parageneses, peak conditions and tectonic setting are very similar to those of the Zermatt-Saas ophiolite, 200 km northwards, thus suggesting a common detachment mechanism for the whole Western Alpine belt.