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 …

Multiscale lithospheric buckling dominates the Cenozoic subsidence and deformation of the Qaidam Basin: A new model for the growth of the northern Tibetan …

X Hu, L Wu, Y Zhang, J Zhang, C Wang, J Tang… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
How the present-day northern Tibetan Plateau was involved in the plateau formation
process in context of the Cenozoic India–Eurasia collision has been disputed for decades …

Cenozoic tectonic development in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from thermochronological and sedimentological records

J Yu, D Zheng, W Wang, J Pang, C Li, Y Wang… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The northeastern Tibetan Plateau occupies the northernmost portion of the plateau,
whose timing and pattern of deformation during its Cenozoic tectonic development provide …

Tectonic evolution of the Beishan orogen in central Asia: Subduction, accretion, and continent-continent collision during the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean

J Li, C Wu, X Chen, AV Zuza, PJ Haproff, A Yin… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Beishan orogen is part of the Neo-proterozoic to early Mesozoic Central Asian Orogenic
System in central Asia that exposes ophiolitic complexes, passive-margin strata, arc …

Mesozoic–Cenozoic cooling, exhumation and tectonic implications of Chaqiabeishan–Shaliuquan LiBe ore district in the northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Z Feng, W Yuan, Z Zhao, G Dong, X Li, W Sun, L Yang… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mesozoic-Cenozoic exhumation and deformation of the northeastern Qinghai–
Tibetan Plateau generated extensive regional rugged mountains. We aimed to explore the …

Paleoproterozoic–Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Longshou Shan, western North China craton

C Wu, J Li, AV Zuza, PJ Haproff, A Yin… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Longshou Shan of western China is the northern backstop of the Cenozoic
Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and occupies a key linkage between the Tarim continent and …

Late Cenozoic geomorphic evolution in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Constraints on U-Pb age spectra of detrital zircons in the Wuwei Basin, NW China

Z Zhao, W Shi, Y Yang - Geomorphology, 2024 - Elsevier
Basin deposits of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau provide an ideal record for
understanding the uplift and the geomorphic evolution in NW China. In this study, we …

Deciphering source-to-sink history from a solute perspective: A Sr isotope approach in the Qaidam Basin, NE Tibet

Y Liu, Y Yang, R Yang, A Galy, Z Jin, X Fang… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sediment source-to-sink history is pivotal to investigating the evolution of ancient
sedimentary basin. Previous study focuses mostly on reconstruction of various components …

Cenozoic two-phase topographic growth of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau derived from two thermochronologic transects across the southern Qilian Shan thrust belt

P He, C Song, Y Wang, Y Zhao, Y Tan, Q Meng… - Tectonophysics, 2022 - Elsevier
The formation of high topography on the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau (the
Qilian Shan) constrains the evolutionary history of the plateau. Although prominent …

Intense metamorphism-generated radiogenic Sr regulated Cenozoic water Sr isotope evolution on the NE Tibetan Plateau: A perspective on Qilian orogen denudation …

Y Yang, A Galy, R Yang, Y Liu, W Zhang… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The India-Asia collision reactivated the early Paleozoic Qilian orogen with an
intense metamorphic belt that promoted the release of metamorphism-generated radiogenic …