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The Quest for Entrained Continental Crust during Collision
Author(s) -
Chen WangPing,
Jiang Yang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
acta geologica sinica ‐ english edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.444
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1755-6724
pISSN - 1000-9515
DOI - 10.1111/1755-6724.13985
Subject(s) - collision , crust , continental crust , geology , astrobiology , earth science , geophysics , computer science , physics , computer security
Even more impressive is the prospect that Indian cratonic crust may have accompanied its mantle keel as the entire Indian lithosphere underthrusts beneath Tibet. Based on finite-frequency, multi-scale traveltime tomography and a multitude of supporting geophysical evidence, the Indian mantle front (IMF), or the northern, leading edge of underthrust Indian mantle keel (“Greater India”), is now situated over 600 km farther north of the Himalayan collision front.