The timing of India-Asia collision onset–Facts, theories, controversies

X Hu, E Garzanti, J Wang, W Huang, W An… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The timing of initial collision between India and Asia has remained controversial for half a
century. This paper attempts to review this crucial and hotly debated argument, describing …

A tectonic model reconciling evidence for the collisions between India, Eurasia and intra-oceanic arcs of the central-eastern Tethys

AD Gibbons, S Zahirovic, RD Müller, JM Whittaker… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite several decades of investigations, inferences on the timing and nature of collisions
along the Mesozoic–Cenozoic Eurasian margin remain controversial. We assimilate …

Paleocene‐Eocene foreland basin evolution in the Himalaya of southern Tibet and Nepal: Implications for the age of initial India‐Asia collision

PG DeCelles, P Kapp, GE Gehrels, L Ding - Tectonics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks derived from the southern Lhasa terrane, sitting depositionally
upon rocks of the northern Indian passive continental margin, provide an estimate of the age …

Timing of India‐Asia collision: Geological, biostratigraphic, and palaeomagnetic constraints

Y Najman, E Appel, M Boudagher‐Fadel… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A range of ages have been proposed for the timing of India‐Asia collision; the range to some
extent reflects different definitions of collision and methods used to date it. In this paper we …

Dating the India–Eurasia collision through arc magmatic records

P Bouilhol, O Jagoutz, JM Hanchar… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Himalayan orogeny, a result of the collision of India and Eurasia, provides direct
evidence of strain accommodation and large-scale rheological behavior of the continental …

[PDF][PDF] Zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic constraints on the onset time of India-Asia collision

FY Wu, WQ Ji, JG Wang, CZ Liu, SL Chung… - American Journal of …, 2014 - ajsonline.org
The time of initial collision between India and Asia has been extremely controversial despite
the fact that it is vital to constraining the orogenesis and subsequent evolution of the …

[HTML][HTML] The Tethyan Himalayan detrital record shows that India–Asia terminal collision occurred by 54 Ma in the Western Himalaya

Y Najman, D Jenks, L Godin… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
The Himalayan orogen is a type example of continent–continent collision. Knowledge of the
timing of India–Asia collision is critical to the calculation of the amount of convergence that …

Sedimentology, provenance and geochronology of the upper Cretaceous–lower Eocene western **gaze forearc basin, southern Tibet

DA Orme, B Carrapa, P Kapp - Basin Research, 2015 - earthdoc.org
Located on the southern margin of the Lhasa terrane in southern Tibet, the **gaze forearc
basin records Cretaceous to lower Eocene sedimentation along the southern margin of Asia …

Constraining the timing of the India-Asia continental collision by the sedimentary record

XM Hu, JG Wang, W An, E Garzanti, J Li - Science China Earth Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Placing precise constraints on the timing of the India-Asia continental collision is essential to
understand the successive geological and geomorphological evolution of the orogenic belt …

The Brahmaputra tale of tectonics and erosion: Early Miocene river capture in the Eastern Himalaya

L Bracciali, Y Najman, RR Parrish, SH Akhter… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
The Himalayan orogen provides a type example on which a number of models of the causes
and consequences of crustal deformation are based and it has been suggested that it is the …