Northward drift of the Burma Terrane with India during the Cenozoic and implications for the India-Asia collision

J Westerweel, P Roperch, Z Win… - Geological Society …, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
The past location of the Burma Terrane during the convergence of the Indian and Asia
tectonic plates, is key for unraveling the regional geodynamic, paleoenvironmental, and …

Development of major unconformities in the forearc regions: A signal of West Myanmar− Asia assemblage before the late Paleocene

P Zhang, SY Jiang, K Zaw, R Li, L Mei, Q Li - Journal of Structural Geology, 2024 - Elsevier
It has long been debated whether the India-Eurasia collision was a single-stage event that
began 60-55 million years ago, or whether it was a two-stage process that involved a …

[HTML][HTML] Oblique plate convergence along arcuate trenches on a spherical Earth. An example from the Western Sunda Arc

M Guzmán-Speziale - Acta Geophysica, 2024 - Springer
We propose a new definition of oblique plate convergence. Our model considers arc-trench
curvature on a spherical Earth, and defines obliquity as the angle between the direction of …

Fairweather transform boundary Oligocene to present orogenesis: Fairweather Range vertical extrusion and rotation of the Yakutat microplate at ca. 3 Ma

JA Benowitz, R Lease, PJ Haeussler, T Pavlis… - Tectonophysics, 2024 - Elsevier
Oblique-slip along transform fault boundaries is often partitioned between a strike-slip
system and thrust faults that accommodate contraction. However, topography along the …