Continental crustal growth processes recorded in the Gangdese Batholith, southern Tibet

DC Zhu, Q Wang, RF Weinberg… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The continental crust in the overriding plate of the India-Asia collision zone in southern Tibet
is characterized by an overthickened layer of felsic composition with an underlying granulite …

Exploring a lost ocean in the Tibetan Plateau: Birth, growth, and demise of the Bangong-Nujiang Ocean

X Hu, A Ma, W Xue, E Garzanti, Y Cao, SM Li… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The vast eastern-Tethyan oceanic domain that throughout the Mesozoic extended between
Gondwana and Eurasia was a puzzle of larger and smaller microcontinents separated by …

Tectonic evolution and geodynamics of the Neo-Tethys Ocean

R Zhu, P Zhao, L Zhao - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Neo-Tethys Ocean was an eastward-ga** triangular oceanic embayment
between Laurasia to the north and Gondwana to the south. The Neo-Tethys Ocean was …

Porphyry mineralization in the Tethyan orogen

R Wang, D Zhu, Q Wang, Z Hou, Z Yang… - Science China Earth …, 2020 - Springer
The Tethyan metallogenic domain (TMD), as one of the three major domains in the world,
extends over 10000 km from east to west, and has developed several world-class …

Timing of closure of the Meso-Tethys Ocean: Constraints from remnants of a 141–135 Ma ocean island within the Bangong–Nujiang Suture Zone, Tibetan Plateau

JJ Fan, Y Niu, YM Liu, YJ Hao - GSA bulletin, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Knowledge of the timing of the closure of the Meso-Tethys Ocean as represented by
the Bangong–Nujiang Suture Zone, ie, the timing of the Lhasa-Qiangtang collision, is critical …

Jurassic tectonic evolution of Tibetan plateau: a review of bangong-nujiang Meso-Tethys Ocean

Y Liu, S Li, Q Zhai, Y Tang, P Hu, R Guo, Y Liu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Jurassic subduction of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethys Ocean is recognized as a
significant event in the geotectonic evolution of Tibetan Plateau. This study focuses on the …

Discriminating Qiangtang, Lhasa, and Himalayan sediment sources in the Tibetan Plateau by detrital-zircon U-Pb age and Hf isotope facies

W Xue, X Hu, E Garzanti, A Ma, W Lai, C Li - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The detrital zircon has been most widely used in sediment provenance studies and basin
analysis over the past 20 years. With the accumulation of a bounty of detrital zircon ages …

Timing of the Meso-Tethys Ocean opening: evidence from Permian sedimentary provenance changes in the South Qiangtang Terrane, Tibetan Plateau

JJ Fan, Y Niu, AB Luo, CM **e, YJ Hao… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Timing of the opening of the Meso-Tethys Ocean, represented by the Bangong–Nujiang
Suture Zone on the Tibetan Plateau, remains controversial. Further research is required to …

Thermochronology constraints on the Cretaceous-Cenozoic thermo-tectonic evolution in the Gaize region, central-western Tibetan Plateau: Implications for the …

K Tong, Z Li, L Zhu, G Xu, Y Zhang, PJJ Kamp… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
The temporal and spatial variations of exhumation in the central Tibetan Plateau (TP)
contain information about timing of the initial rise and growth of the TP. Here, we present …

Early Cretaceous (∼ 138–134 Ma) Forearc Ophiolite and Tectonomagmatic Patterns in Central Tibet: Subduction Termination and Re‐initiation of Meso‐Tethys …

YC Zeng, JF Xu, JL Chen, BD Wang, F Huang… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Bangong‐Nujiang Suture Zone (BNSZ) in central Tibet represents relics of the
Meso‐Tethys Ocean that once separated the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes. When and how …