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Paleogene–Miocene reworking of older crust · Region VIEW

Central Pamir

A chain of metamorphic domes exposes rocks that travelled through the middle crust during collision, melting, and rapid exhumation.

REGIONAL SYNTHESIS

Geological story

The Yazgulem, Sarez, Muskol, and Shatput domes record Paleogene crustal thickening followed by Miocene exhumation. Thermochronology places the transition from burial to exhumation near 20–16 Ma in several domes.

Time represented
Paleogene–Miocene reworking of older crust
Tectonic setting
Crustal stacking followed by syn-convergent extension and dome exhumation
Rock record
Amphibolite-facies quartzofeldspathic gneiss, schist, migmatite, leucogranite, and pegmatite

DOCUMENTED PROVENANCE

Linked minerals

No reviewed mineral occurrence has been linked yet. This is an evidence gap, not evidence that minerals are absent.

EVIDENCE BASE

Sources for this region

Titanite petrochronology of the Pamir gneiss domesStearns et al. · 2015

Dates thickening and the transition to exhumation across several central Pamir domes.