Constraining quantitatively the timing and process of continent-continent collision using magmatic record: Method and examples

Processes of initial collision and suturing between India and Asia

(2017) Lin Ding et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Raising the Gangdese Mountains in southern Tibet

(2017) Di-Cheng Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Early Eocene ( c . 50 Ma) collision of the Indian and Asian continents: Constraints from the North Himalayan metamorphic rocks, southeastern Tibet

(2016) Huixia Ding et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

(2016) Xiumian Hu et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Eocene Neo-Tethyan slab breakoff constrained by 45 Ma oceanic island basalt–type magmatism in southern Tibet

(2016) Wei-Qiang Ji et al.   GEOLOGY

New insights into the timing of the India – Asia collision from the Paleogene Quxia and Jialazi formations of the Xigaze forearc basin, South Tibet

(2016) Xiumian Hu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Cospatial Eocene and Miocene granitoids from the Jiru Cu deposit in Tibet: Petrogenesis and implications for the formation of collisional and postcollisional porphyry Cu systems in continental collision zones

(2016) Zhiming Yang et al.   LITHOS

Crustal-scale duplexing beneath the Yarlung Zangbo suture in the western Himalaya

(2016) Rui Gao et al.   Nature Geoscience

Large-scale subduction of continental crust implied by India–Asia mass-balance calculation

(2016) Miquela Ingalls et al.   Nature Geoscience

Alteration and mineralization at the Zhibula Cu skarn deposit, Gangdese belt, Tibet

(2016) Jing Xu et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

Constraints on the collision and the pre-collision tectonic configuration between India and Asia from detrital geochronology, thermochronology, and geochemistry studies in the lower Indus basin, Pakistan

(2015) Guangsheng Zhuang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Paleomagnetic results from the Early Cretaceous Lakang Formation lavas: Constraints on the paleolatitude of the Tethyan Himalaya and the India–Asia collision

(2015) Tianshui Yang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Propagation of the deformation and growth of the Tibetan–Himalayan orogen: A review

(2015) Yalin Li et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Collisional Processes and Links to Episodic Changes in Subduction Zones

(2015) J. van Hunen et al.   Elements

Direct stratigraphic dating of India-Asia collision onset at the Selandian (middle Paleocene, 59 ± 1 Ma)

(2015) Xiumian Hu et al.   GEOLOGY

New insights into the India–Asia collision process from Cretaceous paleomagnetic and geochronologic results in the Lhasa terrane

(2015) Tianshui Yang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Zircon U–Pb age and Sr–Nd–Hf–O isotope geochemistry of the Paleocene–Eocene igneous rocks in western Gangdese: Evidence for the timing of Neo-Tethyan slab breakoff

(2015) Rui Wang et al.   LITHOS

Developing plate tectonics theory from oceanic subduction zones to collisional orogens

(2015) YongFei Zheng et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

What was the Paleogene latitude of the Lhasa terrane? A reassessment of the geochronology and paleomagnetism of Linzizong volcanic rocks (Linzhou basin, Tibet)

(2015) Wentao Huang et al.   TECTONICS

Magmatic record of India-Asia collision

(2015) Di-Cheng Zhu et al.   Scientific Reports

Sedimentology, provenance and geochronology of the upper Cretaceous-lower Eocene western Xigaze forearc basin, southern Tibet

(2014) Devon A. Orme et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

The Andean-type Gangdese Mountains: Paleoelevation record from the Paleocene–Eocene Linzhou Basin

(2014) Lin Ding et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tibetan garnet records early Eocene initiation of thickening in the Himalaya

(2014) Matthijs A. Smit et al.   GEOLOGY

Petrogenesis of the Early Eocene adakitic rocks in the Napuri area, southern Lhasa: Partial melting of thickened lower crust during slab break-off and implications for crustal thickening in southern Tibet

(2014) Lin Ma et al.   LITHOS

Paleocene-Eocene foreland basin evolution in the Himalaya of southern Tibet and Nepal: Implications for the age of initial India-Asia collision

(2014) P. G. DeCelles et al.   TECTONICS

Dating the India–Eurasia collision through arc magmatic records

(2013) Pierre Bouilhol et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Petrochronology of Himalayan ultrahigh-pressure eclogite

(2013) Dennis G. Donaldson et al.   GEOLOGY

Retrodeforming the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone: Age of collision versus magnitude of continental subduction

(2013) Nadine McQuarrie et al.   GEOLOGY

Inclination shallowing in Eocene Linzizong sedimentary rocks from Southern Tibet: correction, possible causes and implications for reconstructing the India–Asia collision

(2013) Wentao Huang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Delamination vs. break-off: the fate of continental collision

(2013) Valentina Magni et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Correlation between magmatism of the Ladakh Batholith and plate convergence rates during the India–Eurasia collision

(2013) J. Gregory Shellnutt et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Compositional diversity of ca. 110Ma magmatism in the northern Lhasa Terrane, Tibet: Implications for the magmatic origin and crustal growth in a continent–continent collision zone

(2013) Qing-Lin Sui et al.   LITHOS

Early Late Cretaceous (ca. 93Ma) norites and hornblendites in the Milin area, eastern Gangdese: Lithosphere–asthenosphere interaction during slab roll-back and an insight into early Late Cretaceous (ca. 100–80Ma) magmatic “flare-up” in southern Lhasa (Tibet)

(2013) Lin Ma et al.   LITHOS

The role of the Zagros orogeny in slowing down Arabia-Eurasia convergence since ~5 Ma

(2013) Jacqueline Austermann et al.   TECTONICS

Is the switch from I- to S-type magmatism in the Himalayan Orogen indicative of the collision of India and Eurasia?

(2012) L. T. White et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

(2012) M. Seton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Dynamics of slab detachment

(2012) T. Duretz et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The origin and pre-Cenozoic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau

(2012) Di-Cheng Zhu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Initial India-Asia Continental Collision and Foreland Basin Evolution in the Tethyan Himalaya of Tibet: Evidence from Stratigraphy and Paleontology

(2012) Qinghai Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Greater India Basin hypothesis and a two-stage Cenozoic collision between India and Asia

(2012) D. J. J. van Hinsbergen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mountain building and mantle dynamics

(2012) Claudio Faccenna et al.   TECTONICS

Tectonostratigraphy and provenance of an accretionary complex within the Yarlung–Zangpo suture zone, southern Tibet: Insights into subduction–accretion processes in the Neo-Tethys

(2012) Fulong Cai et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Deconvolving episodic age spectra from zircons of the Ladakh Batholith, northwest Indian Himalaya

(2011) L.T. White et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Mid-Eocene high Sr/Y granites in the Northern Himalayan Gneiss Domes: Melting thickened lower continental crust

(2011) Lingsen Zeng et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

India's hidden inputs to Tibetan orogeny revealed by Hf isotopes of Transhimalayan zircons and host rocks

(2011) Mei-Fei Chu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

High density carbonic fluids in a slab window: Evidence from the Gangdese charnockite, Lhasa terrane, southern Tibet

(2011) Zeming Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Geochemical and Sr–Nd isotopic constraints on the genesis of the Cenozoic Linzizong volcanic successions, southern Tibet

(2011) Hao-Yang Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

New paleomagnetic results from the Lhasa block: Revised estimation of latitudinal shortening across Tibet and implications for dating the India–Asia collision

(2010) Xiaodong Tan et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Horizontal subduction zones, convergence velocity and the building of the Andes

(2010) J. Martinod et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Continental collision and slab break-off: A comparison of 3-D numerical models with observations

(2010) Jeroen van Hunen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth

(2010) Di-Cheng Zhu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Apatite fission-track data for the Miocene Arabia-Eurasia collision

(2010) Aral I. Okay et al.   GEOLOGY

Early Eocene warming events and the timing of terrestrial faunal exchange between India and Asia

(2010) Mark Clementz et al.   GEOLOGY

Motion between the Indian, Antarctic and African plates in the early Cenozoic

(2010) Steven C. Cande et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

India-Asia collision and the Cenozoic slowdown of the Indian plate: Implications for the forces driving plate motions

(2010) Alex Copley et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Timing of India-Asia collision: Geological, biostratigraphic, and palaeomagnetic constraints

(2010) Yani Najman et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Sinking continents

(2010) R. Dietmar Müller   Nature Geoscience

India–Asia convergence driven by the subduction of the Greater Indian continent

(2010) F. A. Capitanio et al.   Nature Geoscience

Zircon age determinations for the Ladakh batholith at Chumathang (Northwest India): Implications for the age of the India–Asia collision in the Ladakh Himalaya

(2010) Marc R. St-Onge et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Numerical modelling of spontaneous slab breakoff and subsequent topographic response

(2010) Thibault Duretz et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Geochemical investigation of Early Cretaceous igneous rocks along an east–west traverse throughout the central Lhasa Terrane, Tibet

(2009) Di-Cheng Zhu et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic constraints on petrogenesis of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet

(2009) Wei-Qiang Ji et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

The fate of subducted Upper Continental Crust: An experimental study

(2009) Yao Wu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The 132 Ma Comei-Bunbury large igneous province: Remnants identified in present-day southeastern Tibet and southwestern Australia

(2009) Di-Cheng Zhu et al.   GEOLOGY

Late Cretaceous charnockite with adakitic affinities from the Gangdese batholith, southeastern Tibet: Evidence for Neo-Tethyan mid-ocean ridge subduction?

(2009) Zeming Zhang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Slowing of India's convergence with Eurasia since 20 Ma and its implications for Tibetan mantle dynamics

(2009) Peter Molnar et al.   TECTONICS

Eocene Neotethyan slab breakoff in southern Tibet inferred from the Linzizong volcanic record

(2009) Hao-Yang Lee et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Geochronology and petrogenesis of granitic rocks in Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet

(2009) WeiQiang Ji et al.   Science in China. Series D, Earth sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences

Eocene break-off of the Neo-Tethyan slab as inferred from intraplate-type mafic dykes in the Gaoligong orogenic belt, eastern Tibet

(2008) Yi-Gang Xu et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Contribution of syncollisional felsic magmatism to continental crust growth: A case study of the Paleogene Linzizong volcanic Succession in southern Tibet

(2008) Xuanxue Mo et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Evidence for Early (>44 Ma) Himalayan Crustal Thickening, Tethyan Himalaya, southeastern Tibet

(2008) Amos B. Aikman et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Subduction of the Indian lithosphere beneath the Tibetan Plateau and Burma

(2008) Chang Li et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tomographic evidence of slab detachment beneath eastern Turkey and the Caucasus

(2008) Ekrem Zor   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Arabia–Eurasia collision and the forcing of mid-Cenozoic global cooling

(2008) Mark B. Allen et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The influence of lithospheric thickness variations on continental evolution

(2007) Dan MKenzie et al.   LITHOS