A review of the geologic history of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen suggests that at least 1400
km of north-south shortening has been absorbed by the orogen since the onset of the Indo …

The extension of the lithosphere, controlling the development of rifted basins, is driven by a
combination of plate-boundary forces, frictional forces exerted on the base of the lithosphere …

Asia has been a major testing ground for various competing models of continental
deformation due to its relatively well-understood plate boundary conditions in the Cenozoic …

We present a new global model for Recent plate velocities, REVEL, describing the relative
velocities of 19 plates and continental blocks. The model is derived from publicly available …

Abstract Analysis of tectonic stress from the inversion of fault kinematic and earthquake focal
mechanism data is routinely done using a wide variety of direct inversion, iterative and grid …

Geochronologic dating and compilation of existing age data suggest that Cenozoic activities
in the eastern Indo–Asian collision zone of southeast China and Indochina occurred in two …

To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called
supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken …

Cenozoic rifts in Tibet were traditionally interpreted as a result of topographic collapse of the
Tibetan Plateau, reaching the maximum elevation that can be supported by its mechanical …

The kinematic models and the associated orientation of extensional stress of the East
African Rift System have been subjected to much debate since a long time. In the past …

We present new geodetic results of crustal velocities over a large part of northern Asia
based on GPS measurements in the Baikal rift zone and Mongolia spanning the 1994–2002 …