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 …

New geochronological and geochemical data on magmatic activity from the India-Asia
collision zone enables recognition of a distinct magmatic flare-up event that we ascribe to …

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 …

The appearance of detritus shed from mountain ranges along the northern margin of the
Tibetan Plateau heralds the Cenozoic development of high topography. Current estimates of …

Continental China is a mosaic of numerous tectonic blocks, which amalgamated from
Neoarchean to Cenozoic broadly coeval with the cycles of global supercontinents such as …

Abstract Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau is thought to be one of the most important orogenic and
climate forcing events of the Cenozoic Era, associated with geodynamic changes related to …