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Interpretations of pre-collisional configurations of Greater India are highly controversial and predict distinct processes during the India-Asia collision. To better determine the possible pre-collisional configuration(s) of Greater India, we conduct a mass-balance analysis combined with previously published geologic, paleomagnetic, and geodynamic evidence. The mass-balance analysis determines the magnitude of northern Greater India (NGI) width needed to provide sufficient crustal accretion to form the Tethyan-Greater Himalaya orogenic wedge in Cenozoic time. Applying endmember crustal thicknesses of 10–40 km to a mass-balance equation yields a broad range of plausible pre-collisional NGI widths of ∼3016±1000 km and ∼956±283 km, respectively, which we further assess considering contrasting models/evidence. The integrated evidence requires a thin NGI continental crust to form 1) continuous Tethyan-Greater Himalayan crustal thickening, 2) a narrow foredeep width of Himalayan foreland basin, 3) continuous Gangdese arc magmatism with oceanic-subduction-style mantle wedge, and 4) low-magnitude exhumation in the North Himalaya and Gangdese arc-forearc from ∼60-30 Ma. Adding the structura

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Author

Yipeng Li; Delores M. Robinson

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)