A review of the geologic history of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen suggests that at least 1400
km of north-south shortening has been absorbed by the orogen since the onset of the Indo …

Convective removal of lower lithosphere beneath the Tibetan Plateau can account for a
rapid increase in the mean elevation of the Tibetan Plateau of 1000 m or more in a few …

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 …

Thermochronologic, sedimentologic, oceanographic, and paleoclimatic studies suggest that
rapid uplift and unroofing of southern Tibet began about 20 million years ago and that the …

We have made measurements of shear wave splitting in the phases SKS and SKKS at 21
broadband stations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa …

Despite a long research history over the past 150 years, the geometry, kinematics, and
dynamic evolution of the Himalayan orogen remain poorly understood. This is mainly due to …

Lithospheric extension is sited, preferentially, along orogenic belts because they have a
thicker continental crust, contain structural inhomogeneities, and suffer extensional orogenic …

The Tibetan Plateau, between the Kunlun Shan and the Himalayas, consists of terranes
accreted successively to Eurasia. The northernmost, the Songban Ganzi Terrane, was …

The concept of strength envelopes, developed in the 1970s, allowed quantitative predictions
of the strength of the lithosphere based on experimentally determined constitutive equations …

The continental crust has an andesitic bulk composition, which cannot have been produced
by the basaltic magmatism that dominates sites of present-day crustal growth—at both …