The configuration of Asia prior to the collision of India: Cretaceous paleomagnetic constraints

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Dec 1993

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. B12, p. 21927-21941

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Asia, Constraints, Cretaceous Period, Geography, Paleomagnetism, Planetary Evolution, Tectonics, Continental Drift, India

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Paleomagnetic data from Central Asia show that 1700 +/- 610 km of shortening of southern Asia since Cretaceous time have been absorbed by distributed deformation between southern Tibet and the Siberia craton. This result is based on a compilation of Cretaceous poles from the Junggar, Tarim, Tibet, Indochina, South China, North China, and Mongolia blocks, complementing the recent compilation of Enkin et al. (1992 a). We propose a paleogeographic reconstruction of Asia in the Cretaceous, in which the position of Siberia is derived from the synthetic apparent polar wander path of Besse and Courtillot (1991). The resulting map, which likely represents Asia as it remained throughout the Cretaceous until the collision with India began, features an 'unbent' Tibet, with an east-west trending Andean margin at tropical latitudes and rather continuous belt of continental red bed basins extending from Sichuan to Tarim through Tibet. The map allows one to estimate continental shortening and rotations between the blocks, which are attributed to the collision. Despite large uncertainties, these have amounts and senses which are in all cases compatible with some recent kinematic models such as that of Avouac (1991).

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