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 …

[PDF][PDF] Why 'the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau'is a myth

RA Spicer, T Su, PJ Valdes, A Farnsworth… - National Science …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The often-used phrase 'the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau'implies a flat-surfaced Tibet rose as a
coherent entity, and that uplift was driven entirely by the collision and northward movement …

Quantifying the rise of the Himalaya orogen and implications for the South Asian monsoon

L Ding, RA Spicer, J Yang, Q Xu, F Cai, S Li… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We reconstruct the rise of a segment of the southern flank of the Himalaya-Tibet orogen, to
the south of the Lhasa terrane, using a paleoaltimeter based on paleoenthalpy encoded in …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents

TM Kusky, A Polat, BF Windley, KC Burke… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Archean cratons have map patterns and rock associations that are diagnostic of the Wilson
Cycle. The North China Craton (NCC) consists of several distinctly different tectonic units …

Direct stratigraphic dating of India-Asia collision onset at the Selandian (middle Paleocene, 59±1 Ma)

X Hu, E Garzanti, T Moore, I Raffi - Geology, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The collision of India with Asia had a profound influence on Cenozoic topography,
oceanography, climate, and faunal turnover. However, estimates of the time of the initial …