Intracontinental deformation of the Tianshan Orogen in response to India-Asia collision

W Li, Y Chen, X Yuan, W **ao, BF Windley - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Cenozoic tectono-magmatic and metallogenic processes in the Sanjiang region, southwestern China

J Deng, Q Wang, G Li, M Santosh - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The Sanjiang region in SE Tibet Plateau, and the western Yunnan region in southwestern
China constitute a collage of Gondwana-derived micro-continental blocks and arc terranes …

Introduction to tectonics of China

YF Zheng, WJ **ao, G Zhao - Gondwana Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The continental crust of China is a mosaic of cratonic blocks and orogenic belts, containing
small cratons and terranes with various tectonic settings. They have diverse origins and …

Greater India Basin hypothesis and a two-stage Cenozoic collision between India and Asia

DJJ Van Hinsbergen, PC Lippert… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Cenozoic convergence between the Indian and Asian plates produced the archetypical
continental collision zone comprising the Himalaya mountain belt and the Tibetan Plateau …

Metamorphic chemical geodynamics in continental subduction zones

YF Zheng - Chemical Geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Chemical geodynamics is an integrated discipline that studies the geochemical structure
and tectonic evolution of geospheres with the aim of linking tectonic processes to …

Origin of postcollisional magmas and formation of porphyry Cu deposits in southern Tibet

R Wang, RF Weinberg, WJ Collins, JP Richards… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The recent discovery of large porphyry copper deposits (PCDs) associated with Miocene (22–
12 Ma) granitoid magmas in the eastern section of the Paleocene-Eocene Gangdese …

High-resolution lithospheric structure beneath Mainland China from ambient noise and earthquake surface-wave tomography

X Bao, X Song, J Li - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a new high-resolution shear-velocity model of the lithosphere (down to about
160 km) beneath China using Rayleigh-wave tomography. We combined ambient noise and …

Tearing of Indian mantle lithosphere from high-resolution seismic images and its implications for lithosphere coupling in southern Tibet

J Li, X Song - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
What happened to the Indian mantle lithosphere (IML) during the Indian–Eurasian collision
and what role it has played on the plateau growth are fundamental questions that remain …