2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2005.00499.x
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Abstract: Newly discovered peloidal limestone from the summit of Mount Qomolangma (Mount Everest) contains skeletal fragments of trilobites, ostracods and crinoids. They are small pebble-sized debris interbedded in micritic bedded limestone of the Qomolangma Formation, and are interpreted to have been derived from a bank margin and redeposited in peri-platform environments. An exposure of the Qomolangma detachment at the base of the first step (8520 m), on the northern slope of Mount Qomolangma was also found. Non-metam… Show more

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“…Near the Chomolangma summit (C, Fig.1b), apatite and zircon fission track ages from the Yellow Band Formation suggest that the STD was still active at c. 14.4 Ma because fast cooling was taking place at that time in the footwall (Sakai et al 2005). Further east, in the Saer area (S, Fig.…”
Section: Geometry and Timing Of Deformation Of The Std Systemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Near the Chomolangma summit (C, Fig.1b), apatite and zircon fission track ages from the Yellow Band Formation suggest that the STD was still active at c. 14.4 Ma because fast cooling was taking place at that time in the footwall (Sakai et al 2005). Further east, in the Saer area (S, Fig.…”
Section: Geometry and Timing Of Deformation Of The Std Systemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The entire upper part of Everest, above the Yellow Band, has been mapped as the Mount Qomolangma Formation, a succession of gray, dominantly fi ne-grained Ordovician limestone (Sakai et al, 2005). Most of these strata consist of highly recrystallized sandy limestone ; Fig.…”
Section: Stratigraphy: Everestmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Samples taken from 6 m below the summit of Everest consist of a variety of generally fi negrained marine carbonate deposits with variable amounts of land-derived silt and clay (Sakai et al, 2005). Grains in the limestone include fragments of crinoids and trilobites, as well as peloids (sand-sized fossilized fecal pellets).…”
Section: Cambrian Orogensmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This exposure age also coincides with the timing of rapid cooling in the Yellow Band at the top of the metamorphic belt beneath the Qomolangma detachment in the Mt Everest area (Sakai et al . ). These facts suggest that frontal and surface parts of the Kuncha and the Lesser Himalayan Crystalline nappes cooled rapidly below about 100°C at 15–14 Ma (Fig.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Cooling rate of the nappe and zircon FT ages of HHC nappe (**) are after S akai et al . (, ) and S akai (). (b) Conceptual cooling model of the nappe.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%