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Nature Geoscience 1, 875–880 (1 December 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo351

Correlation of Himalayan exhumation rates and Asian monsoon intensity

Peter D. Clift , Kip V. Hodges , David Heslop , Robyn Hannigan , Hoang Van Long & Gerome Calves

Although most data suggest that the India–Eurasia continental collision began |[sim]|45–55|[thinsp]|Myr ago, the architecture of the Himalayan–Tibetan orogen is dominated by deformational structures developed in the Neogene period (