Provenance of Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rocks in the northern margin of the Lhasa terrane, Tibet: Implications for the timing of the Lhasa-Qiangtang collision

Placing precise constraints on the timing of initial Lhasa-Qiangtang collision is essential to understand the assembly processes and uplift mechanism of the Tibetan Plateau prior to the Cenozoic India-Asia collision. Along the over 2000-km-long Bangong-Nujiang suture zone, the timing of initial Lhasa-Qiangtang collision remains highly controversial, with estimates ranging from Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous, spanning nearly 100 Myr....