Mechanical properties of lithosphere are of primary importance for interpretation of
deformation at all spatial and time scales, from local scale to large-scale geodynamics and …

This paper reviews and integrates new results on:(1) the Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic
evolution of Central Asia;(2) Cenozoic mountain building and intramontane basin formation …

This unique book presents an overview of isostasy, a simple concept of fundamental
importance to the Earth Sciences that students have traditionally found difficult to grasp. With …

We have studied geometries and rates of late Cenozoic thrust faulting and folding along the
northern piedmont of the Tien Shan mountain belt, West of Urumqi, where the M= 8.3 Manas …

Geological and geophysical observations imply Cenozoic subduction of intact Eurasian
continental lithosphere, approximately 300 km in downdip length and including relatively …

Structural, sedimentological, magnetostratigraphic, and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronological
investigations were conducted in the southern Chinese Tian Shan. On the basis of our own …

It is well accepted that the lithosphere may exhibit nonzero mechanical strength over
geological time and space scales, associated with the existence of non‐lithostatic …

THE Tien Shan—a high, seismically active intracontinental mountain belt, 1,000–2,000 km
north of the Himalaya—has grown as a result of India's collision with Asia1. The crustal …

Plate flexure is a phenomenon that describes how the lithosphere responds to long-term (>
105 yr) geological loads. By comparing the flexure in the vicinity of ice, volcano, and …

In nature, mountains can grow and remain as localized tectonic features over long periods of
time (> 10 my). By contrast, according to current knowledge of lithospheric rheology and …