South Tibetan Detachment
Primary structures, sedimentary, magmatic rocks
Shear zones
South Tibetan Detachment dividing the lower Higher Himalayan Crystalline made by leucogranite (white) overlaied by biotite-sillimanite micaschist (grey) from the upper Tibetan Sedimentary Sequence constituded by very low grade metamorphic ordovician limestones. Top to the NE sense of shear. PhotoID194
Photograph: Chiara Montomoli