The timing of initial collision between India and Asia has remained controversial for half a
century. This paper attempts to review this crucial and hotly debated argument, describing …

Links between tectonics and regional climate have been extensively studied in Asia.
However, despite decades of research, the relative roles of tectonics and global climate in …

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 …

Tectonic models for the Oligocene–Miocene development of the Himalaya mountain range
are largely focused on crustal-scale processes, and developed along orogen-perpendicular …

Large-scale helium accumulations are rarely reported in tectonically active continental
subduction zones. This study shows geochemical variations in helium and other volatiles (N …

Understanding the tectonics that gave rise to the formation of Tibet is critical to our
understanding of crustal deformation processes. The unusual geomorphology of the …

Exhumation of the southern Tibetan plateau margin reflects interplay between surface and
lithospheric dynamics within the Himalaya–Tibet orogen. We report thermochronometric …

Subduction initiation is a key process in the operation of plate tectonics. Our understanding
of melting processes and magmatic evolution during subduction initiation has largely been …

The current structural model for the Longmen Shan (Mountain) belt, which is peripheral to
the Eastern Tibetan Plateau, is an asymmetric orogenic wedge with a series of northwest …

Original stable isotope compositions of carbonates representing conditions in the latest
Oligocene-early Miocene Kailas and Qiabulin areas, both in southern Tibet, record …