Communications Earth & Environment (Nov 2022)

Himalayan zircons resurface in Sumatran arc volcanoes through sediment recycling

  • Meng-Hao Gao,
  • Ping-Ping Liu,
  • Sun-Lin Chung,
  • Qiu-Li Li,
  • Bin Wang,
  • Wei Tian,
  • Xian-Hua Li,
  • Hao-Yang Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00611-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Eocene to Oligocene age Himalayan zircons were transported through the Bengal submarine channel, subducted in the Sunda trench, and resurfaced in the arc volcanoes of Sumatra, according to U-Pb-Hf-O isotopes from arc basalts and andesites