Crustal seismic anisotropy of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau and the adjacent areas from shear-wave splitting measurements

N Hu, Y Li, L Xu - Geophysical Journal International, 2020 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The Northeastern Tibetan Plateau has thickened crust and is still undergoing
strong active crustal shortening and deformation. Crustal anisotropy can provide clues to …

Restricted lithospheric extrusion in the SE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from anisotropic Rayleigh-wave tomography

C Han, Z Huang, S Hao, L Wang, M Xu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Constraining variations of lithospheric structure and deformation across southeastern Tibet
and the surrounding region are crucial for understanding the lateral growth of the plateau …

Upper crustal structure under Jingtai–Hezuo profile in Northeastern Tibet from topography-dependent eikonal traveltime tomography

T Ma, Z Zhang, P Wang, Y Li - Earthquake Science, 2014 - Springer
Abstract The Northeastern Tibetan plateau records Caledonian Qilian orogeny and
Cenozoic reactivation by continental collision between the Indian and Asian plates. In order …

A distinct contrast in the lithospheric structure and limited crustal flow across the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from Vs and Vp/Vs imaging

H Li, Z Ye, R Gao, X Huang - Tectonophysics, 2022 - Elsevier
The uplift mechanism and geodynamic model of the northeastern (NE) Tibetan Plateau
remain controversial. Two competing models have been proposed for the uplift of the NE …

P-wave tomographic images beneath southeastern Tibet: Investigating the mechanism of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

W Wei, RM Sun, YL Shi - Science China Earth Sciences, 2010 - Springer
We used 71670 P-wave arrival times from 3594 earthquakes recorded by the Sichuan and
Yunnan seismic networks to determine the three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure in …

Three-dimensional S-velocity structure of the crust in the southeast margin of the Tibetan plateau and geodynamic implications

H Peng, H Yang, J Hu, J Badal - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
The lower crustal flow model is one of several competing models considered to interpret the
growth and expansion of southeastern Tibet. However, the dynamic processes involved in …

Present-day distribution of deformation around the southern Tibetan Plateau revealed by geodetic and seismic observations

Z Tian, Z Yang, R Bendick, J Zhao, S Wang… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2019 - Elsevier
The modern kinematics in and around the Tibetan Plateau have been widely investigated;
however, the deformation distribution pattern describing the crustal kinematics in this region …

Present day crustal vertical movement inferred from precise leveling data in eastern margin of Tibetan Plateau

M Hao, Q Wang, Z Shen, D Cui, L Ji, Y Li, S Qin - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
We collect precise leveling data observed in the period of 1970 to 2012 around the eastern
margin of the Tibetan Plateau, and process the data to acquire present day crustal vertical …

Contemporary crustal movement of southeastern Tibet: Constraints from dense GPS measurements

Y Pan, WB Shen - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The ongoing collision between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate brings up NS crustal
shortening and thickening of the Tibet Plateau, but its dynamic mechanisms remain …

Crustal and mantle velocity models of southern Tibet from finite frequency tomography

X Liang, Y Shen, YJ Chen - AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2007 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The formation of the Himalayan Range and Tibetan plateau has broad implications for earth
sciences. Yet the exact mechanisms of the mountain-building processes, in particular, the …