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 …

Middle-Late Jurassic tectonostratigraphic evolution of Central Asia, implications for the collision of the Karakoram-Lhasa Block with Asia

YT Yang, ZX Guo, YJ Luo - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Mesozoic basins in different regions of Central Asia provide important records for
investigating relationships between intraplate deformation in Central Asia and tectonic …

[HTML][HTML] 青藏高原大陆动力学研究若干进展

许志琴, 杨经绥, 侯增谦, 张泽明, 曾令森, 李海兵… - 中国地质, 2016 - geochina.cgs.gov.cn
近10 年来," 大陆构造与动力学实验室" 在青藏高原大陆动力学研究, 尤其在特提斯演化和青藏
高原生长方面取得若干进展, 包括(1)" 青藏高原——造山的高原" 理念的提出;(2) …

Late oligocene–early miocene birth of the Taklimakan Desert

H Zheng, X Wei, R Tada, PD Clift… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
As the world's second largest sand sea and one of the most important dust sources to the
global aerosol system, the formation of the Taklimakan Desert marks a major environmental …

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 …

Seismic imaging of subducting continental lower crust beneath the Pamir

FM Schneider, X Yuan, B Schurr, J Mechie… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Exhumation of ultra-high pressure metamorphic rocks testifies that the continental crust can
subduct to significant depth into the mantle despite its buoyancy. However, direct …

中国新疆–中亚大地构造单元划分及演化简述

张向飞, 陈莉, 曹华文, 彭智敏, 陈奋宁, 洪俊, 任飞… - 西北地质, 2023 - xbdz.net.cn
中国新疆–中亚地处特提斯构造域和古亚洲构造域交汇部位, 跨全球最重要三大构造(成矿)
域中的2 个, 对认识全球构造演化和资源环境效应具有重要意义, 前人对该区域开展了大量研究 …

Oceanic-style subduction controls late Cenozoic deformation of the Northern Pamir orogen

ER Sobel, J Chen, LM Schoenbohm, R Thiede… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
The northern part of the Pamir orogen is the preeminent example of an active
intracontinental subduction zone in the early stages of continent–continent collision. Such …

Thermo-tectonic history of the Issyk-Kul basement (Kyrgyz northern Tien Shan, central Asia)

J De Grave, S Glorie, MM Buslov, DF Stockli… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
Lake Issyk-Kul occupies a large Late Mesozoic–Cenozoic intramontane basin between the
mountain ranges of the Northern Kyrgyz Tien Shan. These ranges are often composed of …

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 …