Tracing oceanic plateau relics in the basement of mainland China: A synthesis of aeromagnetic and seismic refraction data

KJ Zhang, C Ji, YZ Zhou, YJ Zhang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Mainland China has the most complex continental tectonics on Earth, making it one of the
ideal laboratories for probing the tectonics and evolution of the Earth. However, no …

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 evolution of the Qaidam basin and its surrounding regions (Part 3): Structural geology, sedimentation, and regional tectonic reconstruction

A Yin, YQ Dang, M Zhang… - … Society of America …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Qaidam basin is the largest topographic depression inside the Tibetan plateau.
Because of its central position, understanding the tectonic origin of the Qaidam basin has …

Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Qaidam basin and its surrounding regions (Part 1): The southern Qilian Shan-Nan Shan thrust belt and northern Qaidam basin

A Yin, YQ Dang, LC Wang… - Geological …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Cenozoic Qaidam basin, the largest active intermountain basin inside Tibet, figures
importantly in the debates on the history and mechanism of Tibetan plateau formation during …

Lithospheric thickness of the Chinese continent

M An, Y Shi - Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2006 - Elsevier
We invert for the upper-mantle temperatures of the Chinese continent in the depth range of
70–240km from a recent S-velocity model. The depth where temperatures intersect a mantle …

Topographic growth of the Jishi Shan and its impact on basin and hydrology evolution, NE Tibetan Plateau

JE Saylor, JC Jordan, KE Sundell, X Wang, S Wang… - Basin …, 2018 - earthdoc.org
Previous research demonstrates that large basins on the periphery of the northern edge of
the Tibetan Plateau were partitioned during development of intrabasin mountain ranges …

Growth of the Qaidam Basin during Cenozoic exhumation in the northern Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from depositional patterns and multiproxy detrital provenance …

MA Bush, JE Saylor, BK Horton, J Nie - Lithosphere, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sedimentologic and provenance analyses for the Qaidam Basin in the northern Tibetan
Plateau help to elucidate the stratigraphic signatures of initial deformation and exhumation …

Crustal flow in Tibet: geophysical evidence for the physical state of Tibetan lithosphere, and inferred patterns of active flow

SL Klemperer - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2006 - lyellcollection.org
Many seismic and magnetotelluric experiments within Tibet provide proxies for lithospheric
temperature and lithology, and hence rheology. Most data have been collected between c …

Present-day velocity field and block kinematics of Tibetan Plateau from GPS measurements

W Wang, X Qiao, S Yang, D Wang - Geophysical Journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we present a new synthesis of GPS velocities for tectonic deformation within the
Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas, a combined data set of∼ 1854 GPS-derived …

[HTML][HTML] Underthrusting and duplexing beneath the northern Tibetan Plateau and the evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen

AV Zuza, C Wu, Z Wang, DA Levy, B Li… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Cenozoic Qilian Shan thrust belt is the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau,
which developed in part due to progressive India-Asia convergence during Himalayan …