Building the Pamir‐Tibetan Plateau—Crustal stacking, extensional collapse, and lateral extrusion in the Central Pamir: 1. Geometry and kinematics

D Rutte, L Ratschbacher, S Schneider, K Stübner… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Asian deep crust exposed in the Pamir permits determination of the amount, sequence, and
interaction of shortening, extension, and lateral extrusion over~ 30 km of crustal section …

Building the Pamir‐Tibetan Plateau—Crustal stacking, extensional collapse, and lateral extrusion in the Central Pamir: 2. Timing and rates

D Rutte, L Ratschbacher, J Khan, K Stübner… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Geothermochronologic data outline the temperature‐deformation‐time evolution of the
Muskol and Shatput gneiss domes and their hanging walls in the Central Pamir. Prograde …

The crust in the Pamir: Insights from receiver functions

FM Schneider, X Yuan, B Schurr… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Cenozoic convergence between India and Asia has created Earth's thickest
crust in the Pamir‐Tibet Plateau by extreme crustal shortening. Here we study the crustal …

New insights into the crust and lithospheric mantle structure of Africa from elevation, geoid, and thermal analysis

J Globig, M Fernàndez, M Torne… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present new crust and lithosphere thickness maps of the African mainland based on
integrated modeling of elevation and geoid data and thermal analysis. The approach …

Terrestrial heat flow and lithospheric thermal structure in the Chagan Depression of the Yingen‐E**aqi Basin, north central China

Y Zuo, S Jiang, S Wu, W Xu, J Zhang, R Feng… - Basin …, 2020 - earthdoc.org
Abstract The Chagan Depression in the Yingen‐E**aqi Basin, located at the intersection of
the Paleo‐Asian Ocean and the Tethys Ocean domains is an important region to gain …

Rapid recycling of subducted sedimentary carbon revealed by Afghanistan carbonatite volcano

F Horton - Nature Geoscience, 2021 - nature.com
The fate of carbon subducted to mantle depths remains uncertain, yet strongly influences the
distribution of terrestrial carbon on geologic timescales. Carbon fluxes into subduction zones …

Lithospheric strength variations in Mainland China: Tectonic implications

Y Deng, M Tesauro - Tectonics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new thermal and strength model for the lithosphere of Mainland China. To this
purpose, we integrate a thermal model for the crust, using a 3‐D steady state heat …

30 Myr of Cenozoic magmatism along the Tethyan margin during Arabia–Eurasia accretionary orogenesis (Meghri–Ordubad pluton, southernmost Lesser Caucasus)

H Rezeau, R Moritz, J Leuthold, S Hovakimyan… - Lithos, 2017 - Elsevier
Three magmatic series of substantially different ages and compositions were successively
emplaced to form the composite Meghri–Ordubab pluton (MOP) in the southernmost Lesser …

Geophysical‐petrological model of the crust and upper mantle in the India‐Eurasia collision zone

L Tunini, I Jiménez‐Munt, M Fernandez, J Vergés… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new crust and upper mantle cross section of the western India‐Eurasia
collision zone by combining geological, geophysical, and petrological information within a …

Crust and mantle lithospheric structure of the Iberian Peninsula deduced from potential field modeling and thermal analysis

M Torne, M Fernàndez, J Vergés, C Ayala, MC Salas… - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
We investigate the lithospheric structure of the Iberian Peninsula and lateral crustal density
variations using a three-step approach. First the crustal and mantle lithosphere thicknesses …