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. 2020 Nov 4;117(47):29487–29494. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2009039117

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4.

(A) Paleolatitude of the TTSZ constrained at the KLA (this study) and the Burma Terrane (18) compared to paleomagnetic plate reconstructions of Indian and Eurasian terranes (4, 14) and the predicted location of the TTSZ (9) throughout the closure of the Neotethys ocean. (B) Paleogeographic map of the location of Kohistan–Ladakh arc relative to India and Eurasia in the Paleocene. The position of the Kohistan–Ladakh arc is reconstructed using our paleomagnetic pole from the Khardung volcanics, and the locations of Indian and Eurasian tectonic blocks are from the plate reconstruction of van Hinsbergen et al. (14). (C) Cross-section illustration showing the plate tectonic configuration of the India–TTSZ–Eurasia collision at 80 Ma, 61.6–66.1 Ma (constrained by our data), 50–60 Ma, and 40–45 Ma.