Himalayan leucogranites and migmatites: nature, timing and duration of anatexis

RF Weinberg - Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread anatexis was a regional response to the evolution of the Himalayan‐Tibetan
Orogen that occurred some 30 Ma after collision between Asia and India. This paper reviews …

Crustal–lithospheric structure and continental extrusion of Tibet

MP Searle, JR Elliott, RJ Phillips… - Journal of the …, 2011 - lyellcollection.org
Crustal shortening and thickening to c. 70–85 km in the Tibetan Plateau occurred both
before and mainly after the c. 50 Ma India–Asia collision. Potassic–ultrapotassic shoshonitic …

Crustal deformation in the India‐Eurasia collision zone from 25 years of GPS measurements

G Zheng, H Wang, TJ Wright, Y Lou… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The India‐Eurasia collision zone is the largest deforming region on the planet;
direct measurements of present‐day deformation from Global Positioning System (GPS) …

Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Asia: A preliminary synthesis

A Yin - Tectonophysics, 2010 - Elsevier
Asia has been a major testing ground for various competing models of continental
deformation due to its relatively well-understood plate boundary conditions in the Cenozoic …

Restoration of Cenozoic deformation in Asia and the size of Greater India

DJJ van Hinsbergen, P Kapp, G Dupont‐Nivet… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A long‐standing problem in the geological evolution of the India‐Asia collision zone is how
and where convergence between India and Asia was accommodated since collision …

Detrital zircon and isotopic constraints on the crustal architecture and tectonic evolution of the northeastern Pamir

AC Robinson, M Ducea, TJ Lapen - Tectonics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
New detrital zircon and isotopic (Nd and Sr) analyses from the eastern Pamir provide
information on the depositional age and tectonic terrane affiliation of regional metamorphic …

Oceanic-style subduction controls late Cenozoic deformation of the Northern Pamir orogen

ER Sobel, J Chen, LM Schoenbohm, R Thiede… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
The northern part of the Pamir orogen is the preeminent example of an active
intracontinental subduction zone in the early stages of continent–continent collision. Such …

Late Miocene–Pliocene deceleration of dextral slip between Pamir and Tarim: Implications for Pamir orogenesis

ER Sobel, LM Schoenbohm, J Chen, R Thiede… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
The timing of the late Cenozoic collision between the Pamir salient and the Tien Shan as
well as changes in the relative motion between the Pamir and Tarim are poorly constrained …

New insights into Phanerozoic tectonics of South China: Early Paleozoic sinistral and Triassic dextral transpression in the east Wuyishan and Chencai domains, NE …

J Li, Y Zhang, G Zhao, ST Johnston, S Dong… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The northeast Cathaysia area is characterized by an archetypical, transpressional system
with widespread strike‐slip shear zones whose geometries, kinematics, and ages are critical …

The South Tibet detachment shear zone in the Dinggye area: Time constraints on extrusion models of the Himalayas

PH Leloup, G Mahéo, N Arnaud, E Kali… - Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
We investigate the timing of end of motion along the South Tibet Detachment System
(STDS), a major normal fault system that runs parallel to the Himalayan range for more than …