Did the Indo-Asian collision alone create the Tibetan plateau?

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 719-722

  Kidd, W S F ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; LATE CENOZOIC; QIANGTANG BLOCK; SOUTHERN TIBET; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

MAPPING;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAPPING METHOD; CAINOZOIC; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; MESOZOIC; PLATEAU FORMATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0031441730     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0719:DTIACA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Yin, A., Harrison, T. M., Ryerson, F. J., Chen, W., Kidd, W. S. F., and Copeland, P., 1994, Tertiary structural evolution of the Gangdese thrust system, southeastern Tibet: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, p. 18175-18201.
2. Zhao, W., and Morgan, J. W., 1987, Injection of the Indian lower crust into Tibetan lower crust: A two-dimensional finite element model study: Tectonics, v. 6, p. 489-504.