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 …

Processes of initial collision and suturing between India and Asia

L Ding, S Maksatbek, FL Cai, HQ Wang… - Science China Earth …, 2017 - Springer
The initial collision between Indian and Asian continents marked the starting point for
transformation of land-sea thermal contrast, uplift of the Tibet-Himalaya orogen, and climate …

Reconstructing Greater India: Paleogeographic, kinematic, and geodynamic perspectives

DJJ van Hinsbergen, PC Lippert, S Li, W Huang… - Tectonophysics, 2019 - Elsevier
Key in understanding the geodynamics governing subduction and orogeny is reconstructing
the paleogeography of 'Greater India', the Indian plate lithosphere that subducted since …

Available data point to a 4‐km‐high Tibetan Plateau by 40 Ma, but 100 molecular‐clock papers have linked supposed recent uplift to young node ages

SS Renner - Journal of Biogeography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The aims of this study were to synthesize data on the orogeny of the Tibetan Plateau (TP),
with a focus on its elevation since the collision of the Eurasian and Indian plates, and to …

Pacific subduction control on Asian continental deformation including Tibetan extension and eastward extrusion tectonics

WP Schellart, Z Chen, V Strak, JC Duarte… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The India-Asia collision has formed the highest mountains on Earth and is thought
to account for extensive intraplate deformation in Asia. The prevailing explanation considers …

Paleomagnetic constraints on the Mesozoic drift of the Lhasa terrane (Tibet) from Gondwana to Eurasia

Z Li, L Ding, PC Lippert, P Song, Y Yue… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Mesozoic plate tectonic history of Gondwana-derived crustal blocks of the Tibetan
Plateau is hotly debated, but so far, paleomagnetic constraints quantifying their paleolatitude …

The evolution of hydroclimate in Asia over the Cenozoic: A stable-isotope perspective

JKC Rugenstein, CP Chamberlain - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Links between tectonics and regional climate have been extensively studied in Asia.
However, despite decades of research, the relative roles of tectonics and global climate in …

Late Triassic paleogeographic reconstruction along the Neo–Tethyan Ocean margins, southern Tibet

F Cai, L Ding, AK Laskowski, P Kapp, H Wang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Sandstone petrographic and U–Pb detrital zircon analyses of Upper Triassic sedimentary
rocks from the northern margin of India (Tethyan Himalaya Sequence) and southern margin …

RETRACTED: Early Cretaceous origin of the Woyla Arc (Sumatra, Indonesia) on the Australian plate

EL Advokaat, MLM Bongers, A Rudyawan… - 2018 - Elsevier
The authors contacted the Editor shortly after publication stating that they have been made
aware of errors in their data files and the paleomagnetic directions, site averages, and …

A review of Himalayan stratigraphy, magmatism, and structure

AJ Martin - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Himalayan Orogen consists of two rock packages that parallel the topographic
trend of the mountain belt between the eastern and western syntaxes. To avoid confusion …