Central China orogenic belt and amalgamation of East Asian continents

Y Dong, S Sun, M Santosh, J Zhao, J Sun, D He… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central China Orogenic Belt (CCOB) comprises, from the east to the west, the
Tongbai-Dabie, Qinling, Qilian and Kunlun Orogens, and preserves abundant and important …

Exploring a lost ocean in the Tibetan Plateau: Birth, growth, and demise of the Bangong-Nujiang Ocean

X Hu, A Ma, W Xue, E Garzanti, Y Cao, SM Li… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The vast eastern-Tethyan oceanic domain that throughout the Mesozoic extended between
Gondwana and Eurasia was a puzzle of larger and smaller microcontinents separated by …

Tectonic evolution and geodynamics of the Neo-Tethys Ocean

R Zhu, P Zhao, L Zhao - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Neo-Tethys Ocean was an eastward-gaping triangular oceanic embayment
between Laurasia to the north and Gondwana to the south. The Neo-Tethys Ocean was …

Birth and demise of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethyan Ocean: A review from the Gerze area of central Tibet

S Li, C Yin, C Guilmette, L Ding, J Zhang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Reconstructing the evolution of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethyan Ocean (BNTO) plays an
indispensable role in understanding the linkage between Gondwana dispersion and Tibetan …

Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of the southern Qiangtang basin: Implications for the Lhasa‐Qiangtang collision timing

A Ma, X Hu, E Garzanti, Z Han… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The Mesozoic stratigraphic record of the southern Qiangtang basin in central Tibet records
the evolution and closure of the Bangong‐Nujiang ocean to the south. The Jurassic …

Late Triassic basin inversion of the Qiangtang Basin in northern Tibet: Implications for the closure of the Paleo-Tethys and expansion of the Neo-Tethys

J Wang, X Fu, H Wei, L Shen, Z Wang, K Li - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sedimentologic and tectonic records in the Qiangtang Basin, northern Tibet, indicate a
negative basin inversion during the Late Triassic, which reveals Paleo-Tethys closure and …

Oceanic plateau subduction during closure of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethyan Ocean: Insights from central Tibetan volcanic rocks

LL Hao, Q Wang, C Zhang, Q Ou, JH Yang… - GSA …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Identification of arc magmatic rock associations in a subduction zone has important
implications for specifically revealing the geodynamic evolution of the subduction system …

Mesozoic building of the Eastern Tianshan and East Junggar (NW China) revealed by low-temperature thermochronology

Z He, B Wang, S Glorie, W Su, X Ni, G Jepson, J Liu… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eastern Tianshan and East Junggar orogenic belts are major constituents of
the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. This study applies low-temperature …

Active construction of southernmost Tibet revealed by deep seismic imaging

Z Lu, X Guo, R Gao, MA Murphy, X Huang, X Xu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Southernmost Tibet exhibits an anomalously twice the normal thickness of average
continental crust. There is no available theory to explain and the driving mechanism remains …

Discriminating Qiangtang, Lhasa, and Himalayan sediment sources in the Tibetan Plateau by detrital-zircon U-Pb age and Hf isotope facies

W Xue, X Hu, E Garzanti, A Ma, W Lai, C Li - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The detrital zircon has been most widely used in sediment provenance studies and basin
analysis over the past 20 years. With the accumulation of a bounty of detrital zircon ages …