Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic

AS Merdith, SE Williams, AS Collins, MG Tetley… - Earth-Science …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Recent progress in plate tectonic reconstructions has seen models move beyond the
classical idea of continental drift by attempting to reconstruct the full evolving configuration of …

Exploring a lost ocean in the Tibetan Plateau: Birth, growth, and demise of the Bangong-Nujiang Ocean

X Hu, A Ma, W Xue, E Garzanti, Y Cao, SM Li… - Earth-Science …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The vast eastern-Tethyan oceanic domain that throughout the Mesozoic extended between
Gondwana and Eurasia was a puzzle of larger and smaller microcontinents separated by …

[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 …

A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic

AS Merdith, AS Collins, SE Williams, S Pisarevsky… - Gondwana …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Neoproterozoic tectonic geography was dominated by the formation of the supercontinent
Rodinia, its break-up and the subsequent amalgamation of Gondwana. The Neoproterozoic …

Tectonic evolution and geodynamics of the Neo-Tethys Ocean

R Zhu, P Zhao, L Zhao - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022‏ - Springer
Abstract The Neo-Tethys Ocean was an eastward-ga** triangular oceanic embayment
between Laurasia to the north and Gondwana to the south. The Neo-Tethys Ocean was …

Assembly of the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes in central Tibet by divergent double subduction

DC Zhu, SM Li, PA Cawood, Q Wang, ZD Zhao, SA Liu… - Lithos, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Integration of lithostratigraphic, magmatic, and metamorphic data from the Lhasa–Qiangtang
collision zone in central Tibet (including the Bangong suture zone and adjacent regions of …

Lithospheric architecture of the Lhasa terrane and its control on ore deposits in the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen

Z Hou, L Duan, Y Lu, Y Zheng, D Zhu… - Economic …, 2015‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits in collisional orogens are new targets for modern
mineral exploration, yet it is unclear why they preferentially occur in some specific tectonic …

The origin and pre-Cenozoic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau

DC Zhu, ZD Zhao, Y Niu, Y Dilek, ZQ Hou, XX Mo - Gondwana Research, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Different hypotheses have been proposed for the origin and pre-Cenozoic evolution of the
Tibetan Plateau as a result of several collision events between a series of Gondwana …

The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth

DC Zhu, ZD Zhao, Y Niu, XX Mo, SL Chung… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
The Lhasa Terrane in southern Tibet has long been accepted as the last geological block
accreted to Eurasia before its collision with the northward drifting Indian continent in the …

Detrital zircon geochronology of pre‐Tertiary strata in the Tibetan‐Himalayan orogen

G Gehrels, P Kapp, P DeCelles, A Pullen, R Blakey… - …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
Detrital zircon data have recently become available from many different portions of the
Tibetan–Himalayan orogen. This study uses 13,441 new or existing U‐Pb ages of zircon …