The Hindu Kush slab break-off as revealed by deep structure and crustal deformation

SK Kufner, N Kakar, M Bezada, W Bloch… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Break-off of part of the down-going plate during continental collision occurs due to tensile
stresses built-up between the deep and shallow slab, for which buoyancy is increased …

The crust in the Pamir: Insights from receiver functions

FM Schneider, X Yuan, B Schurr… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Cenozoic convergence between India and Asia has created Earth's thickest
crust in the Pamir‐Tibet Plateau by extreme crustal shortening. Here we study the crustal …

Was the Pamir salient built along a Late Paleozoic embayment on the southern Asian margin?

YP Li, AC Robinson, M Gadoev… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
While the northward convex Pamir salient has been interpreted to be a Cenozoic feature,
resulting from terranes of the Pamir experiencing∼ 300 km of northward translation relative …

The Alichur dome, South Pamir, western India–Asia collisional zone: Detailing the Neogene Shakhdara–Alichur syn‐collisional gneiss‐dome complex and connection …

JR Worthington, L Ratschbacher, K Stübner, J Khan… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Neogene, syn‐collisional extensional exhumation of Asian lower–middle crust produced the
Shakhdara–Alichur gneiss‐dome complex in the South Pamir. The< 1 km‐thick, mylonitic …

Recent Block Kinematics and Fault Slip Rates in the Pamir, Central Asia, From an Integrated GNSS Velocity Field

D Wang, B Zhao, J Li, S Metzger, C Gu, W Wang… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Contemporary kinematic characteristics of the Pamir plateau are characterized by (a)
significant NS‐shortening across the northern front,(b) EW‐extension within the Pamir and …

Dense GNSS profiles across the northwestern tip of the India‐Asia collision zone: Triggered slip and westward flow of the Peter the First Range, Pamir, into the Tajik …

S Metzger, A Ischuk, Z Deng, L Ratschbacher… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
At the northwestern tip of the India‐Asia collision zone, the Pamir orocline overrides the Tajik
Depression and the Tarim Basin and collides with the Tian Shan. Currently, the Pamir's …

Two kinematic transformations of the Pamir salient since the Mid-Cenozoic: Constraints from multi-timescale deformation analysis

J Ge, X Shi, H Chen, X Lin, W Ge, X Wei, F Li… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Pamir salient is a key part of the Himalayan–Tibetan Plateau orogenic system and has
undergone intense tectonic deformation during the India–Asian collision. Delineating the …

The 2015–2017 Pamir earthquake sequence: foreshocks, main shocks and aftershocks, seismotectonics, fault interaction and fluid processes

W Bloch, S Metzger, B Schurr, X Yuan… - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY A sequence of three strong (M W7. 2, 6.4, 6.6) earthquakes struck the Pamir of
Central Asia in 2015–2017. With a local seismic network, we recorded the succession of the …

Structure and stress field of the lithosphere between Pamir and Tarim

W Bloch, B Schurr, X Yuan… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Pamir plateau protrudes∼ 300 km between the Tajik‐and Tarim‐basin lithosphere of
Central Asia. Whether its salient location and shape are caused by forceful indentation of a …

Tajik basin and southwestern Tian Shan, northwestern India‐Asia collision zone: 2. Timing of basin inversion, Tian Shan mountain building, and relation to Pamir …

S Abdulhameed, L Ratschbacher, R Jonckheere… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Tajik basin and southwestern Tian Shan constitute the northwestern tip of the India‐Asia
collision zone. Basin inversion formed the thin‐skinned Tajik fold‐thrust belt, outlined by …