Multiple garnet growth in garnet-kyanite-staurolite gneiss, Pangong metamorphic complex, Ladakh Himalaya: New constraints on tectonic setting

► Mineralogy and phase petrology of garnet-kyanite-staurolite gneiss and regional P-T evolution. ► Muscovite, biotite K-Ar age results of the gneisses and associated leucogranites from the Pangong complex. ► Tectonic evolution of the northwest Himalaya. ► Development and slip of the Karakoram fault. ► Relation of the Karakoram fault reactivation and regional exhumation.