Timing and Source of Melting at the Eastern Edge of the Gurla Mandhata Core Complex, Nw Nepal Himalaya

Abstract

northwest sense of shear at ca. 15 Ma to 13 Ma, the Chuwa Khola exhibits dominant top-tothe southwest suggesting the existence of a strain partitioning boundary between the two areas.v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to first and foremost thank my supervisor, Dr. Laurent Godin, for giving me the chance to work on such an exciting and challenging project, as well as for allowing me to travel to one of the most beautiful places on the planet. This has been a life changing opportunity and I am very grateful to have had his support and guidance through it all. I would also like to thank John Cottle for his expertise in guiding monazite petrochronology. I also thank Chris Yakymchuk for his invaluable help with interpreting my geochemical analyses.Thank you to the following people for their analytical and technical assistance: Agatha Dobosz for her help with thin section mapping and mineral characterization on the scanning electron microscope; Brian Joy for his help with X-ray chemical mapping of monazites on the electron microprobe; and Andrew Kylander-Clark (UCSB) for his help with guiding monazite petrochronology. I would also like to thank my thesis examination committee, Dr.