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 …

[PDF][PDF] Why 'the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau'is a myth

RA Spicer, T Su, PJ Valdes, A Farnsworth… - National Science …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The often-used phrase 'the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau'implies a flat-surfaced Tibet rose as a
coherent entity, and that uplift was driven entirely by the collision and northward movement …

[PDF][PDF] Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses

P Kapp, PG DeCelles - American Journal of Science, 2019 - ajsonline.org
The Himalayan-Tibetan orogen culminated during the Cenozoic India--Asia collision, but its
geological framework and initial growth were fundamentally the result of multiple, previous …

Assembly of the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes in central Tibet by divergent double subduction

DC Zhu, SM Li, PA Cawood, Q Wang, ZD Zhao, SA Liu… - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
Integration of lithostratigraphic, magmatic, and metamorphic data from the Lhasa–Qiangtang
collision zone in central Tibet (including the Bangong suture zone and adjacent regions of …

Outward-growth of the Tibetan Plateau during the Cenozoic: A review

C Wang, J Dai, X Zhao, Y Li, SA Graham, D He, B Ran… - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
The surface uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) offers a key testing ground for
evaluating models of collisional tectonics and holds important implications for processes …

The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth

DC Zhu, ZD Zhao, Y Niu, XX Mo, SL Chung… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Lhasa Terrane in southern Tibet has long been accepted as the last geological block
accreted to Eurasia before its collision with the northward drifting Indian continent in the …

The growth of northeastern Tibet and its relevance to large‐scale continental geodynamics: A review of recent studies

DY Yuan, WP Ge, ZW Chen, CY Li, ZC Wang… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies of the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau have called attention to two
emerging views of how the Tibetan Plateau has grown. First, deformation in northern Tibet …

The andean-type gangdese mountains: paleoelevation record from the paleocene–eocene linzhou basin

L Ding, Q Xu, Y Yue, H Wang, F Cai, S Li - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Paleoelevation reconstruction using oxygen isotopes is making a significant contribution to
understanding the Cenozoic uplift of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. This paper …

Rapid incision of the Mekong River in the middle Miocene linked to monsoonal precipitation

J Nie, G Ruetenik, K Gallagher, G Hoke… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The uplift of orogenic plateaus has been assumed to be coincident with the fluvial incision of
the gorges that commonly cut plateau margins. The Mekong River, which drains the eastern …

Tectonic evolution of the Qilian Shan: An early Paleozoic orogen reactivated in the Cenozoic

AV Zuza, C Wu, RC Reith, A Yin, J Li… - GSA …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Qilian Shan, located along the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, has
experienced multiple episodes of tectonic deformation, including Neoproterozoic continental …