Late Carboniferous collision between the Tarim and Kazakhstan–Yili terranes in the western segment of the South Tian Shan Orogen, Central Asia, and implications …

BF Han, GQ He, XC Wang, ZJ Guo - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
The Tian Shan of Central Asia is located in the southwestern part of the Central Asian
Orogenic Belt (CAOB, also known as the Central Asian Orogenic System or CAOS) …

Late Cenozoic increase in accumulation rates of terrestrial sediment: How might climate change have affected erosion rates?

P Molnar - Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Accumulation rates of terrestrial sediment have increased in the past few million
years both on and adjacent to continents, although not everywhere. Apparently, erosion has …

Paleozoic multiple accretionary and collisional tectonics of the Chinese Tianshan orogenic collage

W Xiao, BF Windley, MB Allen, C Han - Gondwana Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Subduction-related accretion in the Junggar–Balkash and South Tianshan Oceans (Paleo-
Asian Ocean), mainly in the Paleozoic, gave rise to the present 2400km-long Tianshan …

Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Asia: A preliminary synthesis

A Yin - Tectonophysics, 2010 - Elsevier
Asia has been a major testing ground for various competing models of continental
deformation due to its relatively well-understood plate boundary conditions in the Cenozoic …

Slowing of India's convergence with Eurasia since 20 Ma and its implications for Tibetan mantle dynamics

P Molnar, JM Stock - Tectonics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstructions of the relative positions of the India and Eurasia plates, using recently
revised histories of movement between India and Somalia and between North America and …

GPS velocity field for the Tien Shan and surrounding regions

AV Zubovich, X Wang, YG Scherba… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements at∼ 400 campaign‐style GPS points and another 14 continuously recording
stations in central Asia define variations in their velocities both along and across the Kyrgyz …

[图书][B] Continents and supercontinents

JJW Rogers, M Santosh - 2004 - books.google.com
To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called
supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken …

Late Quaternary slip rates across the central Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, central Asia

SC Thompson, RJ Weldon, CM Rubin… - Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Slip rates across active faults and folds show that late Quaternary faulting is distributed
across the central Tien Shan, not concentrated at its margins. Nearly every intermontane …

Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic history of the central Chinese Tian Shan: Reactivated tectonic structures and active deformation

M Jolivet, S Dominguez, J Charreau, Y Chen, Y Li… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The present‐day topography of the Tian Shan range is considered to result from crustal
shortening related to the ongoing India‐Asia collision that started in the early Tertiary. In this …

[PDF][PDF] 中, 新生代天山隆升过程及其与准噶尔, 阿尔泰山比较研究

郭召杰, 张志诚, 吴朝东, 方世虎, 张锐 - 地质学报, 2006 - researchgate.net
内容提要: 根据穿越天山地质剖面观察, 系统裂变径迹(FT) 测年年龄与热演化模拟结果分析,
并综合前人研究结果, 天山陆内造山带中, 新生代主要经历2 次明显的隆升事件, 分别为晚侏罗世 …