Although motion is likely to have varied more smoothly than these results would allow, the geological record also suggests a sequence of distinct episodes, at about the same times. Hence we suggest that no single event should be regarded as the collision of India with Asia. The deceleration of...
The collision between India and Eurasia mobilizes multiple processes of continental tectonics. However, how deformation develops within the lithosphere across the Tibetan Plateau is still poorly known and a synoptic view is missing. Here, we exploit an extensive geodetic observatory to resolve the kinema...
Several studies14,15,16,17,18indicate that Cenozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Tibetan Plateau are reliable recorders of the evolution of India-Asia collision processes and the formation of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen. Magmatic and metamorphic degassing, which are fundamentally linked to such p...
The South China Sea (SCS) is one of the biggest marginal seas in the western Pacific region. Affected by the India-Eurasia collision to the northwest (Morley, 2002), the subduction of the Pacific Plate and then the compression from the Philippine Sea plate in the east (Zhou et al., 2002...
Kinematic model of active deformation in central Asia. Geophys. Res. Lett. 20, 895–898 (1993). Google Scholar Copley, A., Avouac, J.-P. & Royer, J.-Y. India-Asia collision and the Cenozoic slowdown of the Indian plate: Implications for the forces driving plate motions. J. Geophys...
The entire orogen was reactivated as a result of the continental collision of India with Asia, with the front of the active collision zone located some 1500 km to the south of the Tien Shan [3], [4]. Although this collision began at ∼55 Ma, recent detailed studies have documented ...
FAN Jiawei et al.: Impacts of seismic activity and climatic change on Chinese history in the recent millennium 2335 ongoing India–Asia collision, the southeastward movement of the Mongolia and Siberia blocks, and the subduction processes of the Pamir orogen and the Pacific western margin (Molnar...
range and Tibetan plateau have formed as a result of the collision between the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate which began 50 million years ago and continues today. 225 million years ago (Ma) India was a large island situated off the Australian coast and separated from Asia by the Tethys ...
Even though we have not succeeded in obtaining conclusive data about the exact timing of phases of rapid uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, it is most likely that the major phase of uplift occurred during the Late Oligocene. Introduction Continental collision between India and Asia resulted in crustal...
The North China craton is one of the oldest continental nuclei on earth (Liu et al., 1992), originated from the collision between the Yanliao and Ordos blocks in the Paleoproterozoic (1.85 Ga, Fig. 2C, Zhao, et al., 2005). In the Mesozoic, this craton was reactivated, with lithospheri...