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The onset of India–Asia continental collision: Early, steep subduction required by the timing of UHP metamorphism in the western Himalaya
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In this article, it was shown that Indian UHP rocks of the Tso Morari Complex reached UHP depths at 53.3F0.7 Ma and reached the Asian trench no later than 57F1 Ma, providing a metamorphic age for comparison with previous paleomagnetic and stratigraphic estimates.About:
This article is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.The article was published on 2005-05-30. It has received 505 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Continental collision & Subduction.read more
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Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Himalayan orogen as constrained by along-strike variation of structural geometry, exhumation history, and foreland sedimentation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically review the essential observations relevant to the along-strike variation of the Himalayan geologic framework and its role in Cenozoic Himalayan exhumation, metamorphism and foreland sedimentation.
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The origin and pre-Cenozoic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau
Di-Cheng Zhu,Zhidan Zhao,Yaoling Niu,Yaoling Niu,Yildirim Dilek,Yildirim Dilek,Zengqian Hou,Xuanxue Mo +7 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed and reevaluated these hypotheses in light of new data from Tibet including the distribution of major tectonic boundaries and suture zones, basement rocks and their sedimentary covers, magmatic suites, and detrital zircon constraints from Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks.
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When and where did India and Asia collide
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used field evidence from Tibet and a reassessment of published data to suggest that continent-continent collision began around the Eocene/Oligocene boundary (∼34 Ma) and propose an alternative explanation for events at 55 Ma.
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Late Jurassic–Cenozoic reconstructions of the Indonesian region and the Indian Ocean
TL;DR: The Sundaland region was assembled by closure of Tethyan oceans and addition of continental fragments in the Cretaceous and Cenozoic as discussed by the authors, and a marked change in deep mantle structure at about 110°E reflects different subduction histories north of India and Australia since 90-Ma.
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Zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic constraints on petrogenesis of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet
TL;DR: In this article, the age distribution and petrogenesis of the Gangdese batholith, the largest intrusive exposure along the Transhimalayan magmatic belt, were analyzed for in situ zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic analyses.
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Cenozoic geological and plate tectonic evolution of SE Asia and the SW Pacific: computer-based reconstructions, model and animations
TL;DR: In this article, a model for the Cenozoic development of the region of SE Asia and the SW Pacific is presented and its implications are discussed, accompanied by computer animations in a variety of formats.
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Himalayan tectonics explained by extrusion of a low-viscosity crustal channel coupled to focused surface denudation
TL;DR: C coupled thermal–mechanical numerical models are used to show that these two processes—channel flow and ductile extrusion—may be dynamically linked through the effects of surface denudation focused at the edge of a plateau that is underlain by low-viscosity material.
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An internally consistent dataset with uncertainties and correlations: 3. Applications to geobarometry, worked examples and a computer program
TL;DR: In this paper, a Pascal computer program, thermocalc, is described for various thermodynamic calculations using the thermodynamic dataset presented in earlier papers in this series (Holland & Powell, 1985; Powell & Holland, 1985).