Aconitum balfourii Stapf. (Family: Ranunculaceae) is a rare medicinal herb distributed at high altitude (2800-4200 m) of Himalayan region. It is rich in secondary metabolites, especially aconitines, having medicinal properties. Secondary metabolites, mainly polyphenols, cause hinderance in the isolation of good quality DNA from the plant. Therefore, in the present investigation, an attempt was ...

Abstract The Central Alpine lower crustal migmatitic Gruf complex was exhumed in contact to the greenschist-grade Chiavenna ophiolite and gneissic Tambo nappe leading a lateral gradient of ~ 70 °C/km within ophiolite. 14 km long, E-W striking subvertical now bridges metamorphic conditions 730 °C, 6.6 kbar gneisses 500 4.2 serpentinites schists 2–4 north contact. An obvious fault, mylonite or hi...

How the Neotethyan Ocean evolved and extended southwards into Southeast Asia remains controversial. The paleographical correlation between India SE Asian blocks and/or terranes before opening of Neotethys initial time is still unknown. lack this knowledge hampers our further understanding tectonic evolution global Neotethys. Here we present a combined study on Triassic magmatism in Tengchong Bl...

Ž . Gabbroic sills intruding dunite in the crust–mantle transition zone MTZ of the Oman ophiolite have textures and compositions very similar to those in modally layered gabbros that form the lower part of the gabbro section in the ophiolite, and different from those in non-layered gabbros near the dike–gabbro transition. The presence of gabbroic sills in the MTZ indicates that modally layered ...

Geodetic and seismologic studies support a tectonic model for the central Himalaya wherein ~2 cm/yr of Indo-Asian convergence is accommodated along the primary décollement under the range, the Main Himalayan thrust. A steeper midcrustal ramp in the Main Himalayan thrust is commonly invoked as driving rapid rock uplift along a range-parallel band in the Greater Himalaya. This tectonic model, dev...