The collision of India with Asia

dc.contributor.authorWhite, Lloyd
dc.contributor.authorLister, Gordon
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T22:22:03Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T11:40:35Z
dc.description.abstractWe review the relative motion of India and Asia for the last 100 million years and present a revised reconstruction for the India-Antarctica-Africa-North America-Eurasia plate circuit based on published motion histories. Deformation of these continental masses during this time introduces uncertainties, as does error in oceanic isochron age and location. Neglecting these factors, the data ipso facto allow the inference that the motion of India relative to Eurasia was distinctly episodic. 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 Indian plate commencing at ~65. Ma is matched by an equally significant prior acceleration and this aspect must be taken into account in geodynamic scenarios proposed to explain the collision of India with Asia.
dc.identifier.issn0264-3707
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/32398
dc.publisherPergamon-Elsevier Ltd
dc.sourceJournal of Geodynamics
dc.subjectKeywords: African plate; collision zone; deformation; Eurasian plate; Indian plate; North American plate; orogeny; plate motion; plate tectonics; reconstruction; Tethys; Himalayas; India Collision; Himalaya; India; Orogen; Reconstruction; Tectonics; Tethys
dc.titleThe collision of India with Asia
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage17
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage7
local.contributor.affiliationWhite, Lloyd, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationLister, Gordon, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu4065900@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidWhite, Lloyd, u4478576
local.contributor.authoruidLister, Gordon, u4065900
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor040313 - Tectonics
local.identifier.absseo970104 - Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences
local.identifier.ariespublicationU8501506xPUB91
local.identifier.citationvolume56-57
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jog.2011.06.006
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84858000572
local.identifier.thomsonID000302422700002
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByU8501506
local.type.statusPublished Version

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