TY  - JOUR
A1  - Westerweel, Jan
A1  - Roperch, Pierrick
A1  - Licht, Alexis
A1  - Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume
A1  - Win, Zaw
A1  - Poblete, Fernando
A1  - Ruffet, Gilles
A1  - Swe, Hnin Hnin
A1  - Thi, Myat Kai
A1  - Aung, Day Wa
T1  - Burma Terrane part of the Trans-Tethyan arc during collision with India according to palaeomagnetic data
T2  - Nature geoscience
N2  - Convergence between the Indian and Asian plates has reshaped large parts of Asia, changing regional climate and biodiversity, yet geodynamic models fundamentally diverge on how convergence was accommodated since the India-Asia collision. Here we report palaeomagnetic data from the Burma Terrane, which is at the eastern edge of the collision zone and is famous for its Cretaceous amber biota, to better determine the evolution of the India-Asia collision. The Burma Terrane was part of a Trans-Tethyan island arc and stood at a near-equatorial southern latitude at similar to 95 Ma, suggesting island endemism for the Burmese amber biota. The Burma Terrane underwent significant clockwise rotation between similar to 80 and 50 Ma, causing its subduction margin to become hyper-oblique. Subsequently, it was translated northward on the Indian Plate by an exceptional distance of at least 2,000 km along a dextral strike-slip fault system in the east. Our reconstructions are only compatible with geodynamic models involving an initial collision of India with a near-equatorial Trans-Tethyan subduction system at similar to 60 Ma, followed by a later collision with the Asian margin.
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48400
SN  - 1752-0894
SN  - 1752-0908
VL  - 12
IS  - 10
SP  - 863
EP  - 868
PB  - Nature Publ. Group
CY  - New York
ER  -