The closing of Tethys and the tectonics of the Himalaya

MP Searle, BF Windley, MP Coward… - Geological …, 1987 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent geological and geophysical data from southern Tibet allow refinement of models for
the closing of southern (Neo-) Tethys and formation of the Himalaya. Shelf sediments of the …

Multicyclic history of the Northern India continental margin (Northwestern Himalaya)(1)

M Gaetani, E Garzanti - AAPG bulletin, 1991 - archives.datapages.com
The geologic evolution of northern India is best recorded in the stratigraphic succession of
the Zanskar Range (northwestern Himalaya), which represents the most complete transect …

Sedimentary record of the northward flight of India and its collision with Eurasia (Ladakh Himalaya, India)

E Garzanti, A Baud, G Mascle - Geodinamica Acta, 1987 - Taylor & Francis
Stratigraphic and petrographic analysis of the Cretaceous to Eocene Tibetan sedimentary
succession has allowed us to reinterpret in detail the sequence of events which led to …

Palaeocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories: A meta‐analysis of the successions of South‐western and Western Central Asia

G Coletti, L Commissario, L Mariani… - The Depositional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
One hundred and forty‐four published successions of shallow‐water carbonates, deposited
between the Palaeocene and the Miocene, from the Levant to the Himalayas, have been re …

Origin and assembly of south-east Asian continental terranes

I Metcalfe - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 1988 - lyellcollection.org
The pre-Tertiary continental core of south-east Asia is a composite of at least four
tectonostratigraphic terranes; Sibumasu (Shan States of Burma, north-west Thailand …

Origin and assembly of the Tethyside orogenic collage at the expense of Gondwana Land

AMC Şengör, D Altıner, A Cin… - Geological Society …, 1988 - lyellcollection.org
The Tethysides are a superorogenic complex flanking the Eurasian continent to the south
and consisting of the Cimmerides and Alpides, products of Palaeo-and Neo-Tethys …

Structural evolution and sequence of thrusting in the High Himalayan, Tibetan—Tethys and Indus suture zones of Zanskar and Ladakh, Western Himalaya

MP Searle - Journal of structural geology, 1986 - Elsevier
The timing of motion on major thrusts in the Western Himalaya shows an extremely complex
sequence that spans approximately 70 Ma from the latest Cretaceous throughout the …

Cretaceous-Tertiary carbonate platform evolution and the age of the India-Asia collision along the Ladakh Himalaya (Northwest India)

OR Green, MP Searle, RI Corfield… - The Journal of …, 2008 - journals.uchicago.edu
ABSTRACT The India-Asia collision resulted in the formation and uplift of the Himalaya and
the enhanced uplift of the Tibetan plateau. The transition from marine to continental facies …

Restoration and evolution of the intermontane Indus molasse basin, Ladakh Himalaya, India

MP Searle, KT Pickering, DJW Cooper - Tectonophysics, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract Collision of the Indian Plate with the Karakorum Plate-Lhasa Block during the
Eocene (ca. 55-50 Ma) created predominantly a S-or SW-verging thrust culmination across …

Late Cretaceous ophiolite obduction and Paleocene India-Asia collision in the westernmost Himalaya

RA Beck, DW Burbank, WJ Sercombe, AM Khan… - Geodinamica …, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
Collision of the Kohistan island arc with Asia at~ 100 Ma resulted in NS compression within
the Neo-Tethys at a spreading center north of the Indo-Pakistani craton. Subsequent India …