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Tectonic and climatic drivers of Asian monsoon evolution by Thomson, James R., Holden, Philip B., Anand, Pallavi, Edwards, Neil R., Porchier, Cécile A., Harris, Nigel B. W.

“…Asian Monsoon rainfall supports the livelihood of billions of people, yet the relative importance of different drivers remains an issue of great debate. Here,…”
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The geology and tectonics of central Bhutan by Greenwood, Lucy V, Argles, Tom W, Parrish, Randall R, Harris, Nigel B. W, Warren, Clare

“…Lithotectonic mapping, metamorphic observations and U-Pb zircon ages underpin a substantial revision of central Bhutan geology, notably a more extensive and…”
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Constant elevation of southern Tibet over the past 15 million years by Spicer, Robert A, Harris, Nigel B. W, Widdowson, Mike, Herman, Alexei B, Guo, Shuangxing, Valdes, Paul J, Wolfe, Jack A, Kelley, Simon P

“…The uplift of the Tibetan plateau, an area that is 2,000 km wide, to an altitude of about 5,000 m has been shown to modify global climate and to influence…”
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Using U-Th-Pb petrochronology to determine rates of ductile thrusting: Time windows into the Main Central Thrust, Sikkim Himalaya by Mottram, Catherine M., Parrish, Randall R., Regis, Daniele, Warren, Clare J., Argles, Tom W., Harris, Nigel B. W., Roberts, Nick M. W.

“…Quantitative constraints on the rates of tectonic processes underpin our understanding of the mechanisms that form mountains. In the Sikkim Himalaya, late…”
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Kyanite petrogenesis in migmatites: resolving melting and metamorphic signatures by Phillips, Stacy E., Argles, Tom W., Warren, Clare J., Harris, Nigel B. W., Kunz, Barbara E.

“…Aluminosilicates (kyanite, sillimanite and andalusite) are useful pressure–temperature (P–T) indicators that can form in a range of rock types through…”
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Developing an inverted Barrovian sequence; insights from monazite petrochronology by Mottram, Catherine M., Warren, Clare J., Regis, Daniele, Roberts, Nick M.W., Harris, Nigel B.W., Argles, Tom W., Parrish, Randall R.

“…In the Himalayan region of Sikkim, the well-developed inverted metamorphic sequence of the Main Central Thrust (MCT) zone is folded, thus exposing several…”
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A novel palaeoaltimetry proxy based on spore and pollen wall chemistry by Lomax, Barry H., Fraser, Wesley T., Harrington, Guy, Blackmore, Stephen, Sephton, Mark A., Harris, Nigel B.W.

“…Understanding the uplift history and the evolution of high altitude plateaux is of major interest to a wide range of geoscientists and has implications for…”
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The application of single zircon evaporation and model Nd ages to the interpretation of polymetamorphic terrains: an example from the Proterozoic mobile belt of south India by Bartlett, Jessica M., Dougherty-Page, Jon S., Harris, Nigel B. W., Hawkesworth, Chris J., Santosh, M.

“…The technique of single zircon dating from the thermal evaporation of 207Pb/206Pb (Kober 1986, 1987) provides a means of dating successive periods of growth…”
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Post-collision magmatism and tectonics in northwest Anatolia by Harris, Nigel B. W., Kelley, Simon, Okay, Aral I.

“…The results of a study of post-collision Eocene granodiorites from northwest Anatolia that intrude and overprint blueschist-facies lithologies are reported…”
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A granite?gabbro complex from Madagascar: constraints on melting of the lower crust by McMillan, Andy, Harris, Nigel B. W., Holness, Marian, Ashwal, Lewis, Kelley, Simon, Rambeloson, Roger

“…The Ranomandry Complex is a Neoproterozoic, nested intrusion from central Madagascar composed of a gabbroic core within a coeval peraluminous granite ring…”
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The identification and significance of pure sediment-derived granites by Hopkinson, Thomas N., Harris, Nigel B.W., Warren, Clare J., Spencer, Christopher J., Roberts, Nick M.W., Horstwood, Matthew S.A., Parrish, Randall R., EIMF

“…The characterization of the geochemical reservoirs of the Earth's continental crust, including the determination of representative upper and lower crustal…”
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Argon behaviour in an inverted Barrovian sequence, Sikkim Himalaya: The consequences of temperature and timescale on 40Ar/39Ar mica geochronology by Mottram, Catherine M., Warren, Clare J., Halton, Alison M., Kelley, Simon P., Harris, Nigel B.W.

“…40Ar/39Ar dating of metamorphic rocks sometimes yields complicated datasets which are difficult to interpret in terms of timescales of the metamorphic cycle…”
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Relative contributions of silicate and carbonate rocks to riverine Sr fluxes in the headwaters of the Ganges by Bickle, Mike J., Chapman, Hazel J., Bunbury, Judith, Harris, Nigel B.W., Fairchild, Ian J., Ahmad, Talat, Pomiès, Catherine

“…Exhumation of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen is implicated in the marked rise in seawater 87Sr/ 86Sr ratios since 40 Ma. However both silicate and carbonate…”
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Fluxes of Sr into the headwaters of the Ganges by Bickle, Mike J, Bunbury, Judith, Chapman, Hazel J, Harris, Nigel B.W, Fairchild, Ian J, Ahmad, Talat

“…Himalayan weathering is recognized as an important agent in modifying sea water chemistry, but there are significant uncertainties in our understanding of…”
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From sediment to granite: timescales of anatexis in the upper crust by Harris, Nigel, Vance, Derek, Ayres, Mike

“…Granite formation is the culmination of a sequence of events initiated by prograde heating of the protolith and followed by formation of a grain-boundary melt,…”
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Exhumation of blueschists along a Tethyan suture in northwest Turkey by Okay, Aral I., Harris, Nigel B.W., Kelley, Simon P.

“…A blueschist belt formed during the mid-Cretaceous (∼88 Ma) high-pressure metamorphism of a passive continental margin sequence of shale, siltstone, quartzite…”
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Precambrian Tectonics and Crustal Evolution in South India by Drury, S. A., Harris, N. B. W., Holt, R. W., Reeves-Smith, G. J., Wightman, R. T.

“…About 3.4 Ga ago voluminous calc-alkaline magmas represented by the granitoid gneisses of southern India were emplaced into a now poorly preserved…”
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Constant elevation of southern Tibet over the past 15 million years by SPICER, Robert A, HARRIS, Nigel B. W, WIDDOWSON, Mike, HERMAN, Alexel B, SHUANGXING GUO, VALDES, Paul J, WOLFE, Jack A, KELLEY, Simon P

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The significance of garnet and cordierite from the Sioux Lookout region of the English River gneiss belt, Northern Ontario by Harris, Nigel B. W.

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