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November 08

Researchers unveil mechanism controlling abrupt acceleration in India-Eurasia convergence and constrain timing of continental collision

During the Late Mesozoic to Early Cenozoic (~65 Ma), the convergence rate between India and Eurasia abruptly increased from ~8 cm/yr to ~18 cm/yr. This dramatic change in plate motion, known as a plate reorganization event, remains an unresolved phenomenon in plate tectonic theory (Fig. 1c). Accompanying this puzzle is the significant, decades-long debate regarding the timing and process of India-Eurasia collision, which has greatly hindered our understanding of the most significant orogenic event since the Phanerozoic—the Tibetan-Himalayan orogeny—and its impact on the paleoclimate and paleoenvironment of Asia.

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