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 …

A tectonic model reconciling evidence for the collisions between India, Eurasia and intra-oceanic arcs of the central-eastern Tethys

AD Gibbons, S Zahirovic, RD Müller, JM Whittaker… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite several decades of investigations, inferences on the timing and nature of collisions
along the Mesozoic–Cenozoic Eurasian margin remain controversial. We assimilate …

[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 …

Tethys tectonic evolution and its bearing on the distribution of important mineral deposits in the Sanjiang region, SW China

J Deng, Q Wang, G Li, C Li, C Wang - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The Sanjiang region in SE Tibet Plateau and NW Yunnan is known to have formed by
amalgamation of Gondwana-derived continental blocks and arc terranes as a result of …

Mantle recycling: transition zone metamorphism of Tibetan ophiolitic peridotites and its tectonic implications

WL Griffin, JC Afonso, EA Belousova… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Large peridotite massifs are scattered along the 1500 km length of the Yarlung–Zangbo
Suture Zone (southern Tibet, China), the major suture between Asia and Greater India …

Rapid forearc spreading between 130 and 120 Ma: Evidence from geochronology and geochemistry of the **gaze ophiolite, southern Tibet

J Dai, C Wang, A Polat, M Santosh, Y Li, Y Ge - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
The Cretaceous **gaze ophiolite is best exposed at the central Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone
(YZSZ, Tibet) which also includes the Gangdese arc and the **gaze forearc basin. This …

Geochemical characterization of ophiolites in the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt: Magmatically and tectonically diverse evolution of the Mesozoic Neotethyan …

H Furnes, Y Dilek, G Zhao, I Safonova, M Santosh - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Ophiolites are important archives of oceanic crust development and preservation in the rock
record, and the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt (AHOB) is one of the most comprehensive …

OIB-type rocks within West Junggar ophiolitic mélanges: Evidence for the accretion of seamounts

G Yang, Y Li, W **ao, L Tong - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB, also known as the Altaid Tectonic
Collage), one of the largest and long-lived accretionary orogens in the world, developed …

Crustal structure of the Indus–Tsangpo suture zone and its ophiolites in southern Tibet

ZQ Xu, Y Dilek, JS Yang, FH Liang, F Liu, DZ Ba… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The> 2000-km-long Indus–Tsangpo suture zone (ITSZ) in southern Tibet contains
remnants of Neotethyan oceanic lithosphere, ophiolitic mélanges, flysch units and …

Geochemistry and geochronology of mafic rocks from the Luobusa ophiolite, South Tibet

C Zhang, CZ Liu, FY Wu, LL Zhang, WQ Ji - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
This study presents geochemical compositions of mafic rocks outcropped in the Luobusa
ophiolite that locates at the eastern part of the Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone (YZSZ). The …