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L. White is financially supported by the SE Asia Research Group through funding provided by a consortium of oil companies. M. Forster acknowledges the support of an Australian Research Fellowship provided by the Australian Research Council.

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  1. Southeast Asia Research Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK

    Lloyd T. White

  2. Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Building 142 Mills Road, Canberra, 0200, Australia

    Gordon S. Lister & Marnie A. Forster

  3. The University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 190006, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Talat Ahmad

  4. Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

    Talat Ahmad

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White, L.T., Lister, G.S., Ahmad, T. et al. Comment on “Dextral transpression and late-Eocene magmatism in the trans-Himalayan Ladakh Batholith (North India): implications for tectono-magmatic evolution of the Indo-Eurasian collisional arc”. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 102, 969–972 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-013-0862-z

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