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 …

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

Abstract The Karakoram Terrane (KT) in the western margin of the Himalayan-Tibetan
orogen preserves the record of the Tethyan oceanic lithospheric subduction beneath the …

Abstract The Yarlung River flows between the east-trending Himalayan and Gangdese
orogens, and across several north-trending rifts. It carries rich information on the Indian …

Southernmost Tibet exhibits an anomalously twice the normal thickness of average
continental crust. There is no available theory to explain and the driving mechanism remains …

Abstract The Tibetan Plateau geographically contains internal and external drainage areas
based on the distributions of river flows and catchments. The internal and external drainage …

Understanding how the Miocene N–S‐trending rifts on the southern Tibetan Plateau formed
is crucial for understanding the evolution of the plateau. Most competing models suggest …

Mountain building and the rock cycle often involve large vertical crustal motions, but their
rates and timescales in unmetamorphosed rocks remain poorly understood. We utilize high …

Contrasts in bedrock erodibility have been shown to drive landscape transience, but it is
unclear whether horizontal tectonic displacements would enhance such effects …

Quantifying today's topography can provide insights into landscape evolution and its
controls, since present topography represents a cumulative expression of past and present …