Greater India Basin hypothesis and a two-stage Cenozoic collision between India and Asia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7659-7664

  Van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^a,b   Lippert, Peter C ^c,d   Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^e,f,g   McQuarrie, Nadine ^h   Doubrovine, Pavel V ^a,b   Spakman, Wim ^f   Torsvik, Trond H ^a,b,i,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi   (Norway)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g Peking University   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

ⁱ GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^j UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

Continent continent collision; Cretaceous; Mantle tomography; Plate reconstructions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; BASIN GROUPS; CENOZOIC; CHINA; EXHUMATION; INDIA; LITHOSPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEA; TOMOGRAPHY;

ASIA; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; GEOLOGY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; INDIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84861205603     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117262109     Document Type: Article

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