A subducting slab dynamics hypothesis for Himalayan mountain building, asymmetric arc curvature, convergence slowdown, and climatic forcing

A Alexander G G Webb1, Hongcheng Guo2, Prof. Peter Dominic Clift, MA, PhD, DSc3, Laurent Husson4, Thomas Mueller5, Diego Costantino6, An Yin7, Zhiqin Xu8, Hui Cao8 and Qin Wang9, (1)University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, United States, (4)Université Grenoble Alpes, ISTerre, Grenoble, France, (5)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)CAGS Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China, (9)School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China