Outward-growth of the Tibetan Plateau during the Cenozoic: A review

C Wang, J Dai, X Zhao, Y Li, SA Graham, D He, B Ran… - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
The surface uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) offers a key testing ground for
evaluating models of collisional tectonics and holds important implications for processes …

Quantifying crustal thickness in continental collisional belts: Global perspective and a geologic application

F Hu, MN Ducea, S Liu, JB Chapman - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We present compiled geochemical data of young (mostly Pliocene-present) intermediate
magmatic rocks from continental collisional belts and correlations between their whole-rock …

Convective removal of the Tibetan Plateau mantle lithosphere by~ 26 Ma

H Lu, X Tian, K Yun, H Li - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
During the late Oligocene–early Miocene there were several major geological events in and
around the Tibetan Plateau (TP). First, crustal shortening deformation ceased completely …

Pliocene-Quaternary crustal melting in central and northern Tibet and insights into crustal flow

Q Wang, CJ Hawkesworth, D Wyman… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
There is considerable controversy over the nature of geophysically recognized low-velocity–
high-conductivity zones (LV–HCZs) within the Tibetan crust, and their role in models for the …

Post-collisional ultrapotassic mafic magmatism in South Tibet: Products of partial melting of pyroxenite in the mantle wedge induced by roll-back and delamination of …

Z Guo, M Wilson, M Zhang, Z Cheng… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Post-collisional (25–8 Ma) ultrapotassic mafic magmatic rocks occur to the north of
the India–Asia collision zone within the Lhasa terrane of the southern Tibetan Plateau …

The distribution of the mid‐to‐lower crustal low‐velocity zone beneath the northeastern Tibetan Plateau revealed from ambient noise tomography

H Li, Y Shen, Z Huang, X Li, M Gong… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We collected continuous seismic data recorded between 2007 and 2010 by 208 broadband
stations from the Chinese Provincial Digital Seismic Networks, A Seismic Collaborative …

Terrestrial heat flow and crustal thermal structure of the Gonghe-Guide area, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau

C Zhang, G Jiang, Y Shi, Z Wang, Y Wang, S Li, X Jia… - Geothermics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gonghe-Guide area, which is located at the northeastern edge of the Qinghai-
Tibetan Plateau, has the greatest hot dry rock (HDR) geothermal resources exploration and …

Exhumation history of the West Kunlun Mountains, northwestern Tibet: Evidence for a long-lived, rejuvenated orogen

K Cao, GC Wang, M Bernet, P van der Beek… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
How and when the northwestern Tibetan Plateau originated and developed upon pre-
existing crustal and topographic features is not well understood. To address this question …

Tibetan Plateau insights into> 1100° C crustal melting in the Quaternary

XZ Zhang, Q Wang, D Wyman, AC Kerr, W Dan… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Partial melting during high-temperature to ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) metamorphism
facilitates crustal differentiation, element transfer, and the evolution of topography in …

Radiogenic heat production variations in the Gonghe basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for the origin of high-temperature geothermal resources

C Zhang, S Hu, S Zhang, S Li, L Zhang, Y Kong, Y Zuo… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Hot dry rock is an almost inexhaustible source of geothermal energy. Since the first attempt
to extract thermal energy from hot dry rock in America in the 1970s, successive studies have …