Cross Orogenic Belts in Central China: Implications for the tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of the East Asian continental collage

Y Dong, S Sun, M Santosh, B Hui, J Sun, F Zhang… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The East Asian continent records a complex geologic and tectonic history that
involved the amalgamation of several small-to medium-sized blocks from Laurasia or …

Granitic record of the assembly of the Asian continent

T Wang, Y Tong, H Huang, H Zhang, L Guo, Z Li… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Asian continent consists of many continental blocks that assembled during the
Phanerozoic, accompanied by widespread granitoids. By compiling a series of digital maps …

A 6000-km-long Neo-Tethyan arc system with coherent magmatic flare-ups and lulls in South Asia

X Zhang, SL Chung, YM Lai, AA Ghani… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Magmatic arcs typically exhibit non-steady-state evolution with episodic flare-ups and lulls,
yet the main drivers remain contentious. Situated in the southwest margin of Southeast Asia …

Magmatic history of central Myanmar and implications for the evolution of the Burma Terrane

A Licht, Z Win, J Westerweel, N Cogné, CK Morley… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Burma Terrane is a microplate at the eastern edge of the Tibetan-Himalayan
orogen, the origin of which remains poorly understood. Its basement comprises …

Burma Terrane collision and northward indentation in the Eastern Himalayas recorded in the Eocene‐Miocene Chindwin Basin (Myanmar)

J Westerweel, A Licht, N Cogné, P Roperch… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Burma Terrane (Myanmar) played an important role in the India‐Asia collision
and moved over 2,000 km northward on the Indian Plate during the Cenozoic, before …

Direct structural evidence of Indian continental subduction beneath Myanmar

T Zheng, Y He, L Ding, M Jiang, Y Ai, CT Mon… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Indian continental subduction can explain Cenozoic crustal deformation, magmatic activity
and uplift of the Tibetan Plateau following the India-Asia collision. In the western Himalayan …

Geodynamic processes of the southeastern Neo-Tethys Ocean and the formation mechanism of the curved subduction system in Southeast Asia

W Ding, R Zhu, B Wan, L Zhao, X Niu, P Zhao… - Science China Earth …, 2023 - Springer
Southeast Asia is located at the intersection of the Tethys and Pacific domains. The
superimposed effects of the two tectonic domains have resulted in complicated deep …

Australian plate subduction is responsible for northward motion of the India‐Asia collision zone and∼ 1,000 km lateral migration of the Indian slab

AJ Parsons, K Sigloch… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Distributions of slabs within Earth's mantle are increasingly used to reconstruct past
subduction zones, based on first‐order assumptions that slabs sink vertically after slab break …

The timing of collision between Asia and the West Burma Terrane, and the development of the Indo‐Burman Ranges

Y Najman, ER Sobel, I Millar, X Luan, S Zapata… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The West Burma Terrane (WBT) is a small terrane bounded to the east by the Asian
Sibumasu Block and to the west by the Indo‐Burman Ranges (IBR), the latter being an …

Timing of syenite‐charnockite magmatism and ruby and sapphire metamorphism in the Mogok Valley Region, Myanmar

MP Searle, JM Garber, BR Hacker, K Htun… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Mogok metamorphic belt (MMB) extends for over 1,000 km along central Burma from the
Andaman Sea to the East Himalayan syntaxis and represents exhumed lower and middle …