The evolutionary history from the Jurassic passive continental margin to the Cretaceous foreland basin of the northern Indian plate where are located in the northern Himalayas of the southern Tibet. The huge transgress-regressive cycle has been developed during the Jurassic. The Himalayan Tethysan ocean-floor spreading velocity is obviously sped up at late Jurassic, from about 0.32cm/a of the early and middle Jurassic up to 1.24cm/a of the late Jurassic. The Cretaceous Himalayan foreland basin evolution is ...