The timing of India-Asia collision onset–Facts, theories, controversies

X Hu, E Garzanti, J Wang, W Huang, W An… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The timing of initial collision between India and Asia has remained controversial for half a
century. This paper attempts to review this crucial and hotly debated argument, describing …

[PDF][PDF] Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses

P Kapp, PG DeCelles - American Journal of Science, 2019 - ajsonline.org
The Himalayan-Tibetan orogen culminated during the Cenozoic India--Asia collision, but its
geological framework and initial growth were fundamentally the result of multiple, previous …

Eclogites and other high-pressure rocks in the Himalaya: A review

PJ O'Brien - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
Himalayan high-pressure metamorphic rocks are restricted to three environments: the suture
zone; close to the suture zone; and (mostly) far (> 100 km) from the suture zone. In the NW …

Petrochronology of Himalayan ultrahigh-pressure eclogite

DG Donaldson, AAG Webb, CA Menold… - …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The timing and nature of the India-Asia collision, Earth's largest ongoing continent-continent
collisional orogen, are unclear. Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism of Indian continental …

Secular change of metamorphic features in the Himalayan orogen during the Cenozoic and its tectonic implications

M Ji, XY Gao, QX Xia, YF Zheng - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The Himalayan orogen is an archetype of collisional orogens built by the continental
collision between India and Asia in the Cenozoic, and it has been a natural laboratory for …

The youngest eclogite in central Himalaya: P–T path, U–Pb zircon age and its tectonic implication

Y Wang, L Zhang, J Zhang, C Wei - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Relict omphacite inclusions have been discovered in mafic granulite at Dinggye of China,
confirming the existence of eclogite in central Himalayan orogenic belt. Detailed petrological …

Progressively elevated geothermal gradients for Miocene metamorphism in the Himalayan orogen

M Ji, XY Gao, YF Zheng - Bulletin, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The property of regional metamorphism at convergent plate margins is substantially related
to the change of geothermal gradients, resulting in different types of crustal reworking …

U-Pb monazite ages from the Pakistan Himalaya record pre-Himalayan Ordovician orogeny and Permian continental breakup

RM Palin, PJ Treloar, MP Searle, T Wald… - GSA …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Greater Himalayan Sequence in India and Nepal records crustal thickening
processes that took place during and following the onset of India-Asia collision (ca. 54–50 …

Subduction initiation at the Solomon back‐arc basin: Contributions from both island arc rheological strength and oceanic plateau collision

L Wang, L Dai, W Gong, S Li, X Jiang… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is generally accepted that the subduction polarity reversal (SPR) results from the strong
collision of two plates. Yet, the SPR of the Solomon Back‐arc Basin is started in the “soft …

On the origin of high-pressure mafic granulite in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Himalayan orogen

Z Zhang, H Ding, RM Palin, X Dong, Z Tian, D Kang… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Himalayan orogen, resulting from the Early Cenozoic collision of the Indian and Asian
plates, is an ideal vehicle to study active orogenic processes and test geodynamic models of …