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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2012
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van Hinsbergen, D.J.J.
Lippert, P.C.
Dupont-Nivet, G.
McQuarrie, N.
Doubrovine, P.V.
Spakman, W.
Torsvik, T.H.
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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...