The timing of the initial India–Asia collision and the mechanisms that led to the eventual
formation of the high (> 5 km) Tibetan Plateau remain enigmatic. In this Review, we describe …

Across the entire mantle we interpret 94 positive seismic wave-speed anomalies as
subducted lithosphere and associate these slabs with their geological record. We document …

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 …

During continent–continent collision, does the downgoing continental plate underplate far
inboard of the collisional boundary or does it subduct steeply into the mantle, and how is this …

How the continental lithosphere deforms far away from plate boundaries has been long
debated. The Tianshan is a type-example of ongoing lithospheric deformation in an …

The collision between India and Eurasia mobilizes multiple processes of continental
tectonics. However, how deformation develops within the lithosphere across the Tibetan …

In this study, we integrate bedrock datasets, observations of subducted slabs in the mantle,
and plate kinematic constraints to constrain models for the India-Asia collision and the …

The Tianshan range, located in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB),
represents an excellent natural laboratory for investigating intracontinental deformation. The …

As a typical intracontinental orogenic belt, the Tian Shan range is a natural lab for the
understanding of ongoing intraplate deformation and related geodynamic mechanisms …

Break-off of part of the down-going plate during continental collision occurs due to tensile
stresses built-up between the deep and shallow slab, for which buoyancy is increased …