Geologic evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue , 2000, Pages 211-280

  Yin, A ^a   Harrison, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental collision; Himalaya; Orogenic development; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; OROGENY; PLATEAU; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA;

EID: 0033794632     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.28.1.211     Document Type: Article

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258. Quaternary deformation in the eastern Pamirs, Tadzhikistan and Kyrgyzstan
259. A palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Dir Group: Evidence for magmatic arc migration within Kohistan, N. Pakistan
260. Strike-slip fault
261. The Ailao Shan/Red River metamorphic belt: Tertiary left-lateral shear between Indochina and South China
262. Field evidence for active normal faulting in Tibet
263. Slip-line field theory and large-scale continental tectonics
264. Active faulting and tectonics of China
265. Active faulting and Cenozoic tectonics of Tien Shan, Mongolia, and Baikal regions
266. On the mechanics of the collision between India and Asia
267. Propagating extrusion tectonics in Asia: New insights from simple experiments with plasticine
268. Eocene age of eclogite metamorphism in Pakistan Himalaya: Implications for India-Eurasia collision
269. Post-collision, shoeshonitic volcanism on the Tibetan plateau: Implications for convective thinning of the lithosphere and the source of ocean island basalts
270. Timing of Tibetan uplift constrained by analysis of volcanic rocks
271. The timing of prograde metamorphism in the Zanskar Himalaya
272. Flank uplift and topography at the central Baikal Rift (SE Siberia): A test of kinematic models for continental extension
273. Holocene left-slip rate determined by cosmogenic surface dating on the Xidatan segment of the Kunlun fault (Qinghai, China)
274. Discovery and geologic significance of the Casang-Cabu rift in northern Xizang
275. Displacement and timing along the northern strand of the Altyn Tagh fault zone, northern Tibet
276. Interpretation of Cenozoic tectonics in the right-lateral accommodation zone between the Ailao Shan shear zone and the eastern Himalayan syntaxis
277. Late Cenozoic Xiangshuihe-Xiaojiang, Red River, and Dali fault systems of southwestern Sichuan and central Yunnan, China
278. Characteristics of sedimentary rocks and their environmental evolution
279. Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary strata in the Tethyan Himalayas of Tibet (Tingri area, China)
280. Subduction of Asian lithospheric mantle beneath Tibet inferred from models of continental collision
281. Tomographic evidence for localized lithospheric shear along the Altyn Tagh fault
282. Crenulation cleavage formation: Evolving diffusion, deformation and equilibration mechanisms with increasing metamorphic grade
283. Deformation partitioning and foliation reactivation during transpressional orogenesis, an example from the Central Longmen Shan, China
284. Yadong cross structure and South Tibetan detachment in the east central Himalaya (89°-90°E)
285. Geological and tectonic significance of paleo-ophiolite zone of the Qilian Mountains
286. Geochemical characteristics of Cenozoic volcanic rocks along the rim of the Tibetan plateau-evidence for ancient enriched mantle
287. Isotopic geochemistry of plutonic rocks
288. Age and geochemistry of granites and metamorphic rocks in south-central Xizang (Tibet)
289. Magmatism and metamorphism in the Lhasa block (Tibet): A geochronological study
290. Mantle diapir and inward intracontinental subduction: A discussion on the mechanism of uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
291. Mode of Cenozoic east-west extension in Tibet suggests a common origin of rifts in Asia during the Indo-Asian collision
292. Tertiary deformation history of southeastern and southwestern Tibet during the Indo-Asian collision
293. Tertiary structural evolution of the Gangdese thrust system, southeastern Tibet
294. Extensive exposure of Mesozoic melange in Qiangtang and its role in the Cenozoic development of the Tibetan plateau
295. Evidence for significant Late Cenozoic E-W extension in North Tibet
296. Evidence for large scale underthrusting (>250 km) of Lhasa beneath Qiangtang during the Indo-Asian collision: Implications for the deep-crustal structures in Tibet and uplift mechanisms
297. Spacing of N-S rifts in Tibet implies lithospheric extension
298. Miocene evolution of the Kailas thrust and Gurla Mandhata detachment fault, western Tibet: Implications for the displacement history of the Karakorum fault
299. An indentation model for North and South China collision and the development of the Tanlu and Honam fault systems, eastern Asia
300. A Phanerozoic palinspastic reconstruction of China and its neighboring regions
301. Preliminary results from a collaborative geologic investigation of the Altyn Tagh Fault, North Tibet
302. The Tibetan plateau: Regional stratigraphic context and previous work
303. Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of southern Tibet from a seismological passive source experiment
304. Triassic flysch trace fossils and their geological significance from east Karakorum mountains, China
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306. Geochemical characteristics and tectonic setting of the Xiangqiong-Casang mafic volcanic belt
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