Mantle diapir and inward intracontinental subduction: A discussion on the mechanism of uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 328, Issue , 1999, Pages 19-31

  Xu, Zhiqin ^a   Jiang, Mei ^b   Yang, Jingsui ^a   Zhao, Guoguang ^c   Cui, Junwen ^a   Li, Haibing ^a   Lu, Qingtian ^c   Xue, Guangqi ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; NORTH CHINA CRATON; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

FAULT SLIPS;

CENOZOIC; COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRATON; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DIAPIR; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PARTIAL MELTING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE;

CHINA; GOLMUD; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 0348090365     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2328-0.19     Document Type: Article

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