Timing of subduction initiation, arc formation, ophiolite obduction and India–Asia collision in the Himalaya

Reconstruction of the Western Himalaya requires three subduction systems operating beneath the Spong arc, Dras–Kohistan arc and the Asian continent during the Late Cretaceous–Paleocene. The timing of the closure of the Neo-Tethys Ocean along the Indus Suture Zone (ISZ) in Ladakh and south Tibet has...

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Main Author: Searle, M
Format: Journal article
Published: Geological Society of London 2018