[HTML][HTML] Geological, geophysical and plate kinematic constraints for models of the India-Asia collision and the post-Triassic central Tethys oceans

AJ Parsons, K Hosseini, RM Palin, K Sigloch - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we integrate bedrock datasets, observations of subducted slabs in the mantle,
and plate kinematic constraints to constrain models for the India-Asia collision and the …

[PDF][PDF] Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses

P Kapp, PG DeCelles - American Journal of Science, 2019 - ajsonline.org
The Himalayan-Tibetan orogen culminated during the Cenozoic India--Asia collision, but its
geological framework and initial growth were fundamentally the result of multiple, previous …

Metamorphic response to collision in the Central Himalayan Orogen

B Goscombe, D Gray, DA Foster - Gondwana Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Closure of the Neotethys Ocean and high-angle continent-continent collision
between India and Asia after about 55 Ma resulted in low-angle subduction of the Indian …

Progressively elevated geothermal gradients for Miocene metamorphism in the Himalayan orogen

M Ji, XY Gao, YF Zheng - Bulletin, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The property of regional metamorphism at convergent plate margins is substantially related
to the change of geothermal gradients, resulting in different types of crustal reworking …

Transpressive deformation in the southern european variscan belt: new insights from the aiguilles rouges massif (Western Alps)

M Simonetti, R Carosi, C Montomoli, JM Cottle… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the Mediterranean sector of the Variscan Belt being fragmented and reworked
during Alpine orogenesis, evidence for the activity of a right‐lateral strike‐slip shear zone …

Early evolution of Himalayan orogenic belt and generation of middle Eocene magmatism: Constraint from Haweng granodiorite porphyry in the Tethyan Himalaya

WQ Ji, FY Wu, JM Wang, XC Liu, ZC Liu… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Although the Himalayan orogenic belt is dominant by Oligocene to Miocene leucogranites, it
initiated magmatic activity from middle Eocene. However, the exact distribution and genesis …

Metamorphic constraints on the tectonic evolution of the High Himalaya in Nepal: the art of the possible

DJ Waters - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
This review presents an objective account of metamorphic, microstructural and
geochronological studies in the Greater Himalayan Sequence (GHS) and adjacent units in …

On the origin of high-pressure mafic granulite in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Himalayan orogen

Z Zhang, H Ding, RM Palin, X Dong, Z Tian, D Kang… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Himalayan orogen, resulting from the Early Cenozoic collision of the Indian and Asian
plates, is an ideal vehicle to study active orogenic processes and test geodynamic models of …

Preservation of the early evolution of the Himalayan middle crust in foreland klippen: Insights from the Karnali klippe, west Nepal

R Soucy La Roche, L Godin, JM Cottle, DA Kellett - Tectonics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Although the India‐Asia collision has been ongoing since the Eocene, the exposed
hinterland of the Himalayan orogen was pervasively deformed and metamorphosed at high …

Timing and kinematics of flow in a transpressive dextral shear zone, Maures Massif (Southern France)

M Simonetti, R Carosi, C Montomoli, M Corsini… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Maures–Tanneron Massif and the Corsica–Sardinia Block are two segments of
the southern European Variscan belt that separated during the Late Oligocene–Miocene …