Geological evidence against large-scale pre-Holocene offsets along the Karakoram Fault: Implications for the limited extrusion of the Tibetan plateau

Two end-member models proposed to accommodate the convergence between India and Asia north of the Himalaya are (1) homogeneous crustal thickening of the Tibetan plateau and (2) continental escape, or extrusion, of Tibet and southeast Asia, away from the indenting Indian plate. Foremost among the arg...