Reply to Aitchison and Ali: Reconciling Himalayan ophiolite and Asian magmatic arc records with a two-stage India-Asia collision model

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Reply to Aitchison and Ali: Reconciling Himalayan ophiolite and Asian magmatic arc records with a two-stage India-Asia collision model
 
van Hinsbergen, D.J.J.; Lippert, P.C.; Dupont-Nivet, G.; McQuarrie, N.; Doubrovine, P.V.; Spakman, W.; Torsvik, T.H.
(2012) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 109, issue 40, pp. E2646 - E2646
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Abstract
We recently presented a compilation of paleomagnetic data arguing for Cretaceous extension within Greater India. These data imply that a Tibetan Himalayan (TH) microcontinent rifted away from India, opening an oceanic Greater India Basin (GIB) in its wake. Consequently, we postulated a two-stage India-Asia collision at ∼52 and 25–20 Ma...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208836109
ISSN: 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
 
 
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