Reply to Ali & Aitchison's comment on 'Restoration of Cenozoic deformation in Asia, and the size of Greater India'

Abstract

In our recent paper [van Hinsbergen et al., 2011a], we provide a kinematic restoration of Cenozoic deformation in Asia based on the currently available kinematic estimates on fault zones and fold-thrust belts in Tibet, the Pamir, the Tien Shan, Mongolia, Siberia and Indochina. Our reconstruction suggests that approximately 1050 km (in the Pamir) to 600 km (in eastern Tibet) of India-Asia convergence was accommodated by intraAsian shortening in the last ~50 Ma...