Ree minerals of phyllites of the main central thrust of the Tamor window area, Eastern Nepal

E.V. Belogub, V.V. Shilovskikh, K.A. Novoselov

UDК 549(3/9), 552.4

A sample of chlorite-muscovite fllite metamorphosed under greenschist facies of metamor-phism below biotite isograde of the Lower Himalayan Sequence from the Main Central Thrust zone of the Tamor tectonic window area (Eastern Nepal) are studied. The REE minerals are alla-nite, monazite and xenotime. The temperature of their formation based on chlorite thermometer and mineral assemblages is below 410 °C. The clayey minerals and biogenic calcium phosphate from primary pelite rocks are suggested to be the source for REEs.

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Key words: monazite, allanite, metamorphysm, rare earth elements.

МINERALOGY № 3 2018