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Article: 'Greater India' controversy: Case closed?

Title'Greater India' controversy: Case closed?
Authors
Ali, JRAitchison, JC
KeywordsAustralia
Gondwana break-up
Himalaya
India
Tibet
Issue Date2007
PublisherIndian Academy of Sciences. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci
Citation
Current Science, 2007, v. 92 n. 6, p. 739-742 How to Cite?
AbstractDespite eighty years of debate, there has been little consensus on 'Greater India's' shape and size prior to its collision with Asia. Indeed the last decade has seen models with S-N extensions ranging between 100 and 2800 km. We argue that the southeast Indian Ocean, where the continent lay when it formed part of Gondwana, is fundamental for constraining Greater India proposals. Using the Wallaby-Zenith Fracture Zone as a guide, we show that extensions north of cratonic India ranged from ∼950 km in the centre to ∼500 and ∼600 km respectively, at the Eastern and Western Syntaxes. The proposal is in agreement with recent seismic modelling of Indian continental lithosphere beneath Tibet.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/72528
ISSN
0011-3891
2021 Impact Factor: 1.169
2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.281
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dc.subjectHimalayaen_HK
dc.subjectIndiaen_HK
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dc.title'Greater India' controversy: Case closed?en_HK
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