Mechanisms to generate ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism

S Jiao, M Brown, RN Mitchell, P Chowdhury… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Ultrahigh-temperature (UHT; T max≥ 900° C) metamorphism requires unusually high heat
in continental crust at depths of 15–55 km, but how such extreme thermal conditions are …

The community velocity model V. 1.0 of southwest China, constructed from joint body‐and surface‐wave travel‐time tomography

Y Liu, H Yao, H Zhang, H Fang - … Society of America, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Southwest China, located at the southeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau, plays an
important role for the plateau growth and its material extrusion. It has complicated tectonic …

Massive lithospheric delamination in southeastern Tibet facilitating continental extrusion

J Feng, H Yao, L Chen, W Wang - National Science Review, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Significant left-lateral movement along the Ailao Shan-Red River fault accommodated a
substantial amount of the late Eocene to early Miocene India-Asia convergence. However …

Deep mantle structure and origin of Cenozoic intraplate volcanoes in Indochina, Hainan and South China Sea

D Zhao, G Toyokuni, K Kurata - Geophysical Journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cenozoic basalts with ages ranging from 28.5 to< 0.1 Ma are widely distributed in the
Indochina block, the South China Sea basin and the Leiqiong area in South China including …

Petrology of the Machangqing complex in southeastern Tibet: Implications for the genesis of potassium-rich adakite-like intrusions in collisional zones

Y Shen, YC Zheng, ZQ Hou, AP Zhang… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Many intrusions with adakite-like affinities in collisional zones have obviously higher K2O
contents and K2O/Na2O ratios compared with counterparts in subduction zones. A suite of …

Cenozoic delamination of the southwestern Yangtze craton owing to densification during subduction and collision

J Wang, Q Wang, CB Xu, W Dan, Z Xiao, C Shu… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
It is widely thought that oceanic subduction can trigger cratonic keel delamination, but the
southwestern Yangtze craton (SYC; southwestern China) lost its lower keel during Cenozoic …

Restricted lithospheric extrusion in the SE Tibetan Plateau: evidence from anisotropic Rayleigh-wave tomography

C Han, Z Huang, S Hao, L Wang, M Xu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Constraining variations of lithospheric structure and deformation across southeastern Tibet
and the surrounding region are crucial for understanding the lateral growth of the plateau …

Seismic-velocity structure of the lithosphere beneath the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Insights into geodynamic processes and deformation …

J Hu, H Yang, H Peng, J Badal - Gondwana Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau is a tectonic transition zone between the
Tibetan Plateau and Yangtze Craton of the South China Block. The lithosphere beneath the …

Hydrothermal He and CO2 degassing from a Y-shaped active fault system in eastern Tibetan Plateau with implications for seismogenic processes

W Liu, M Zhang, B Chen, Y Liu, C Cao, W Xu… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Degassing of deeply-derived fluids (eg, He and CO 2) prevails along seismically active
faults in continental collision settings such as the Tibetan Plateau, where potential insights …

Crustal and upper mantle velocity structure of SE Tibet from joint inversion of Rayleigh wave phase velocity and teleseismic body wave data

X Yang, Y Luo, C Jiang, Y Yang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Since the continental collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates began about 50 Ma
ago, southeastern Tibet (SET) has undergone complex tectonic deformation. In this study …