Southern Tibetan rifting since late Miocene enabled by basal shear of the underthrusting Indian lithosphere

B Zhang, X Bao, Y Wu, Y Xu, W Yang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Syncontractional extension is prominent in present-day Tibet, but its origin remains
vigorously debated. Several deep-seated geodynamic processes (eg, Indian underthrusting …

Upper mantle deformation beneath the northeastern part of Indian plate from shear-wave splitting analysis

J Kanaujia, G Surve - Geo-Marine Letters, 2024 - Springer
This study investigates seismic anisotropy in the northeastern region of the Indian plate,
including the Eastern Himalayan front, Eastern Himalaya Syntaxis (EHS), Indo-Burmese …

Indian Crustal Front beneath Tibet Inferred from Seismic Anisotropy

B Zhang, X Bao, Y Wu, M Jiang, K Zhou - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Postcollisional downgoing of the Indian plate has absorbed large amounts of the Cenozoic
India–Asia convergence and is a key process governing the Tibetan Plateau's evolution and …