Timing and mechanisms of Tibetan Plateau uplift

L Ding, P Kapp, F Cai, CN Garzione, Z Xiong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The timing of the initial India–Asia collision and the mechanisms that led to the eventual
formation of the high (> 5 km) Tibetan Plateau remain enigmatic. In this Review, we describe …

Tibetan ore deposits: A conjunction of accretionary orogeny and continental collision

J Deng, Q Wang, X Sun, L Yang, DI Groves, Q Shu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the spatial-temporal distribution, geological and geochemical features,
and geophysical context of diverse types of Cenozoic ore deposits formed during India …

[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 …

Crustal deformation in the India‐Eurasia collision zone from 25 years of GPS measurements

G Zheng, H Wang, TJ Wright, Y Lou… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The India‐Eurasia collision zone is the largest deforming region on the planet;
direct measurements of present‐day deformation from Global Positioning System (GPS) …

Gangdese magmatism in southern Tibet and India–Asia convergence since 120 Ma

DC Zhu, Q Wang, SL Chung, PA Cawood… - Geological Society …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
A compilation of 290 zircon U–Pb ages of intrusive rocks indicates that the Gangdese
Batholith in southern Tibet was emplaced from c. 210 Ma to c. 10 Ma. Two intense magmatic …

Origin of postcollisional magmas and formation of porphyry Cu deposits in southern Tibet

R Wang, RF Weinberg, WJ Collins, JP Richards… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The recent discovery of large porphyry copper deposits (PCDs) associated with Miocene (22–
12 Ma) granitoid magmas in the eastern section of the Paleocene-Eocene Gangdese …

Tearing of Indian mantle lithosphere from high-resolution seismic images and its implications for lithosphere coupling in southern Tibet

J Li, X Song - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
What happened to the Indian mantle lithosphere (IML) during the Indian–Eurasian collision
and what role it has played on the plateau growth are fundamental questions that remain …

First evidence of eclogites overprinted by ultrahigh temperature metamorphism in Everest East, Himalaya: Implications for collisional tectonics on early Earth

JM Wang, P Lanari, FY Wu, JJ Zhang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Modern-style plate tectonics, often characterised by subduction, is a fundamental dynamic
process for planet Earth. Subduction related eclogites are widely used to indicate initiation of …

[HTML][HTML] Geological, geophysical and plate kinematic constraints for models of the India-Asia collision and the post-Triassic central Tethys oceans

AJ Parsons, K Hosseini, RM Palin, K Sigloch - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we integrate bedrock datasets, observations of subducted slabs in the mantle,
and plate kinematic constraints to constrain models for the India-Asia collision and the …

Localized foundering of Indian lower crust in the India–Tibet collision zone

D Shi, SL Klemperer, J Shi, Z Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The deep structure of the continental collision between India and Asia and whether India's
lower crust is underplated beneath Tibet or subducted into the mantle remain controversial …