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

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

Volumn 109, Issue 40, 2012, Pages

  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 BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CHINA; COMPRESSION; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INDIA; LETTER; MAGMATIC ARC; OPHIOLITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 84867070888     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208836109     Document Type: Letter

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