Principal investigator: Prof. Franco Rolfo - University of Torino, Department of Mineralogical and Petrologic Sciences.
The project aims to complete the already available geologic data in key areas of NW Himalaya and Karakorum, and to better describe the tectonometamorphic and magmatic evolution of basement units. Geologic, structural and petrographic data were collected in Shaksgam Valley, south Sinkiang (Xinjiang) in 2006, while selected rock samples have been studied in the laboratory in order to obtain petrographic, petrologic, geochemical and geochronological data. In order to complete the research another expedition in the south tributaries of Shaksgam Valley up to Sarpo Laggo glacier and Mustang Pass is necessary to collect metamorphic rocks for laboratory analysis.