[HTML][HTML] Atlas of the underworld: Slab remnants in the mantle, their sinking history, and a new outlook on lower mantle viscosity

DG Van der Meer, DJJ Van Hinsbergen, W Spakman - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Across the entire mantle we interpret 94 positive seismic wave-speed anomalies as
subducted lithosphere and associate these slabs with their geological record. We document …

Birth and demise of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethyan Ocean: A review from the Gerze area of central Tibet

S Li, C Yin, C Guilmette, L Ding, J Zhang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Reconstructing the evolution of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethyan Ocean (BNTO) plays an
indispensable role in understanding the linkage between Gondwana dispersion and Tibetan …

[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 …

Gangdese magmatism in southern Tibet and India–Asia convergence since 120 Ma

DC Zhu, Q Wang, SL Chung, PA Cawood… - Geological Society …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
A compilation of 290 zircon U–Pb ages of intrusive rocks indicates that the Gangdese
Batholith in southern Tibet was emplaced from c. 210 Ma to c. 10 Ma. Two intense magmatic …

Reconstructing Greater India: Paleogeographic, kinematic, and geodynamic perspectives

DJJ van Hinsbergen, PC Lippert, S Li, W Huang… - Tectonophysics, 2019 - Elsevier
Key in understanding the geodynamics governing subduction and orogeny is reconstructing
the paleogeography of 'Greater India', the Indian plate lithosphere that subducted since …

Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of the southern Qiangtang basin: Implications for the Lhasa‐Qiangtang collision timing

A Ma, X Hu, E Garzanti, Z Han… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The Mesozoic stratigraphic record of the southern Qiangtang basin in central Tibet records
the evolution and closure of the Bangong‐Nujiang ocean to the south. The Jurassic …

Multi-proxy evidence for subduction of the Neoproterozoic Adamastor Ocean and Wilson cycle tectonics in the South Atlantic Brasiliano Orogenic System of Western …

FA Caxito, LA Hartmann, M Heilbron… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Field, petrographic, geophysical, geochronological, elemental and isotopic data
support the identification of distinct components of a Wilson cycle (rift-drift-subduction …

[HTML][HTML] Geological, geophysical and plate kinematic constraints for models of the India-Asia collision and the post-Triassic central Tethys oceans

AJ Parsons, K Hosseini, RM Palin, K Sigloch - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we integrate bedrock datasets, observations of subducted slabs in the mantle,
and plate kinematic constraints to constrain models for the India-Asia collision and the …

Subduction initiation triggered by collision: A review based on examples and models

G Yang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Subduction initiation is one of the main unsolved issues in plate tectonics theory with
different proposed mechanisms. In the arc (plateau, terrane)-continent collision models, a …

[HTML][HTML] Finding Argoland: Reconstructing a microcontinental archipelago from the SE Asian accretionary orogen

EL Advokaat, DJJ van Hinsbergen - Gondwana Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Based on the marine magnetic anomalies identified in the Argo Abyssal Plain offshore
northwestern Australia, the conceptual continent of Argoland must have rifted off in the Late …