Slab breakoff: A critical appraisal of a geological theory as applied in space and time

E Garzanti, G Radeff, MG Malusà - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The idea that prominent geological phenomena observed in the crust and at the surface may
be caused by the detachment of subducting dense lithosphere has been anticipated by …

Deep crustal expressions of exhumed strike-slip fault systems: Shear zone initiation on rheological boundaries

S Cao, F Neubauer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The formation of major exhumed strike-slip faults represents one of the most important
dynamic processes affecting the evolution of the Earth's lithosphere. Detailed models of the …

Intracontinental deformation of the Tianshan Orogen in response to India-Asia collision

W Li, Y Chen, X Yuan, W Xiao, BF Windley - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
How the continental lithosphere deforms far away from plate boundaries has been long
debated. The Tianshan is a type-example of ongoing lithospheric deformation in an …

Deep India meets deep Asia: Lithospheric indentation, delamination and break-off under Pamir and Hindu Kush (Central Asia)

SK Kufner, B Schurr, C Sippl, X Yuan… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Subduction of buoyant continental lithosphere is one of the least understood plate-tectonic
processes. Yet under the Pamir–Hindu Kush, at the northwestern margin of the India–Asia …

The Himalaya in 3D: Slab dynamics controlled mountain building and monsoon intensification

AAG Webb, H Guo, PD Clift, L Husson… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Tectonic models for the Oligocene–Miocene development of the Himalaya mountain range
are largely focused on crustal-scale processes, and developed along orogen-perpendicular …

Mesozoic to Cenozoic magmatic history of the Pamir

JB Chapman, SH Scoggin, P Kapp, B Carrapa… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
New geochronologic, geochemical, and isotopic data for Mesozoic to Cenozoic igneous
rocks and detrital minerals from the Pamir Mountains help to distinguish major regional …

Titanite petrochronology of the Pamir gneiss domes: Implications for middle to deep crust exhumation and titanite closure to Pb and Zr diffusion

MA Stearns, BR Hacker, L Ratschbacher, D Rutte… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pamir Plateau, a result of the India‐Asia collision, contains extensive
exposures of Cenozoic middle to lower crust in domes exhumed by north‐south crustal …

Seismotectonics of the Pamir

B Schurr, L Ratschbacher, C Sippl, R Gloaguen… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Based on a 2 year seismic record from a local network, we characterize the deformation of
the seismogenic crust of the Pamir in the northwestern part of the India‐Asia collision zone …

Mesozoic tectonics of the Gondwanan terranes of the Pamir plateau

AC Robinson - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central and Southern Pamir terranes represent Gondwanan crustal fragments
within the Pamir plateau, and are bounded by the Tanymas, Rushan–Pshart, and Wakhan …

Deep burial of Asian continental crust beneath the Pamir imaged with local earthquake tomography

C Sippl, B Schurr, J Tympel, S Angiboust… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
An inclined zone of intermediate-depth seismicity beneath the Pamir orogen in Central Asia
has been interpreted as southward subduction of a slab of Asian lithosphere. However, it is …