Preface • Acknowledgments • SEARLE, M.P. & TRELOAR, P.J. Introduction • Karakoram and Afghanistan • CAPORALI, A. Recent gravity measurements in the Karakoram • ZANCHI, A. Structural evolution of the North Karakoram cover, North Pakistan • GAETANI, M., JADOUL, F., ERBA, E. & GARZANTI, E. Jurassic and Cretaceous orogenic events in the North Karakoram: age constraints from sedimentary rocks • CRAWFORD, M.B. & SEARLE, M.P. Collision-related granitoid magmatism and crustal structure of the Hunza Karakoram, north Pakistan • TRELOAR, P.J. & IZATT, C.N. Tectonics of the Himalayan collision between the Indian Plate and the Afghan Block: a synthesis • North and West Pakistan • AHMED, Z. Leucocratic rocks from the Bela ophiolite, Khuzdar district, Pakistan • ARIF, M. & JAN, M.Q. Chemistry of chromite and associated phases from the Shangla ultramafic body in the Indus suture zone of Pakistan • JAN, M.Q., KHAN, M.A. & QAZI, M. S. The Sapat mafic-ultramafic complex, Kohistan arc, North Pakistan • KHAN, M.A., JAN, M.Q. & WEAVER, B.L. Evolution of the lower arc crust in Kohistan, N Pakistan: temporal arc magmatism through early, mature and intra-arc rift stages • SULLIVAN, M.A., WINDLEY, B.F., SAUNDERS, A.D., HAYNES, J.R. & REX, D.E. A palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Dir Group: evidence for magmatic arc migration within Kohistan, N. Pakistan • POGNANTE, U., BENNA, P. & LE FORT, P. High pressure metamorphism in the High Himalayan Crystallines of the Stak Valley, northeastern Nanga Parbat-Haramosh syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya • GEORGE, M.T., HARRIS, N.B.W. & BUTLER, R.W.H. The tectonic implications of contrasting granite magmatism between the Kohistan island arc and the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif, Pakistan Himalaya • CRONIN, V.S., SCHURTER, G.J. & SVERDRUP, K.A. Preliminary Landsat lineament analysis of the northern Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif, northwest Himalaya • DIPIETRO, J.A., POGUE, K.R., LAWRENCE, R.D., BAIG, M.S., HUSSAIN, A. & AHMAD, I. Stratigraphy south of the Main Mantle Thrust, Lower Swat, Pakistan • GRECO, A. & SPENCER, D.A. A section through the Indian plate, Kaghan Valley, NW Himalaya, Pakistan • Tethyan Himalaya • VANNAY, J.C. & SPRING, L. Geochemistry of the continental basalts within the Tethyan Himalaya of Lahul-Spiti and SE Zanskar, northwest India • SPRING, L., Bussy, F., VANNAY, J.-C., HUON, S. &COSCA, M.A. EarlyPermian granitic dykes 2 of alkaline affinity in the Indian High Himalaya of Upper Lahul and SE Zanskar: geochemical characterization and geotectonic implications • STECK, A., SPRING, L., V ANNAY, J.-C., MASSON, H., BUCHER, H., STUTZ, E., MARCHANT, R. & L TIECHE, J.C. The tectonic evolution of the Northwestern Himalaya in eastern Ladakh and Lahul, India • GARZANTI, E. Sedimentary evolution and drowning of a passive margin shelf (Giumal Group; Zanskar Tethys Himalaya, India): palaeoenvironmental changes during final break-up of Gondwanaland • ROBERTSON, A.H.F. & DEGNAN, P.J. Sedimentology and tectonic implications of the Lamayuru Complex: deep-water facies of the Indian passive margin, Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh Himalaya • High Himalaya • POGNANTE, U. & BENNA, P. Metamorphic zonation, migmatization and leucogranites along the Everest transect of Eastern Nepal and Tibet: record of an exhumation history • LOMBARDO, B., PERTUSATI, P. & BORGHI, S. Geology and tectonomagmatic evolution of the eastern Himalaya along the Chomolungma-Makalu transect • SCHNEIDER, e. & MASCH, L. The metamorphism of the Tibetan Series from the Manang area, Marsyandi Valley, Central Nepal • REDDY, S.M., SEARLE, M.P. & MASSEY, J.A. Structural evolution of the High Himalayan Gneiss sequence, Langtang Valley, Nepal • HARRIS, N.B.W., INGER, S. & MASSEY, J.A. The role of fluids in the formation of High Himalayan leucogranites • ENGLAND, P.E. & MOLNAR, P. Cause and effect among thrust and normal faulting, anatectic melting and exhumation in the Himalaya • GUlLLOT, S., PECHER, A., ROCHETTE, P. & LE FORT, P. The emplacement of the Manaslu granite of Central Nepal: field and magnetic susceptibility constraints • SEARLE, M.P., METCALFE, R.P., REX, A.J. & NORRY, M.J. Field relations, petrogenesis and emplacement of the Bhagirathi leucogranite, Garhwal Himalaya • PATEL, R.C., SINGH, S., ASOKAN, A., MANICKAVASAGAM, R.M. & JAIN, A.K. Extensional tectonics in the Himalayan orogen, Zanskar, NW India • BROWN, R.L. & NAZARCHUK, J.H. Annapurna detachment fault in the Greater Himalaya of central Nepal • Main Central Thrust Zone • GRASEMANN, B. Numerical modelling of the thermal history of the NW Himalayas, Kullu Valley, India • METCALFE, R.P. Pressure, temperature and time constraints on metamorphism across the Main Central Thrust zone and High Himalayan Slab in the Garhwal Himalaya • MEIER, K. & HILTNER, E. Deformation and metamorphism within the Main Central Thrust zone, Arun Tectonic Window, eastern Nepal • MORRISON, e.W.K. & OLIVER, G.J.H. A study ofillite crystallinity and fluid inclusions in the Kathmandu Klippe and the Main Central Thrust zone, Nepal • Main Boundary Thrust, Lesser Himalaya and beyond • NAJMAN, Y., CUFT, P., JOHNSON, M.R.W. & ROBERTSON, A.H.F. Early stages of foreland basin evolution in the Lesser Himalaya, N India • PIVNIK, D.A. & SERCOMBE, W.J. Compression- and transpression-related deformation in the Kohat Plateau, NW Pakistan • McDOUGALL, J.W., HussAIN, A. & YEATS, R.S. The Main Boundary Thrust and propagation of deformation into the foreland fold-and-thrust belt in northern Pakistan near the Indus River • JADOON, I.A.K., LAwRENcE, R.D. & LILLIE, KT. Evolution of foreland structures: an example from the Sulaiman thrust lobe of Pakistan, southwest of the Himalayas • FRANCE-LANORD, c., DERRY, L. & MICHARD, A. Evolution of the Himalaya since Miocene time: isotopic and sedimentological evidence from the Bengal fan • Index