Closure of the East Paleotethyan Ocean and amalgamation of the Eastern Cimmerian and Southeast Asia continental fragments

Y Wang, X Qian, PA Cawood, H Liu, Q Feng… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Phanerozoic record of Southeast Asia preserves the history of opening and
subsequent consumption of the Paleotethyan Ocean and the assembly of continental …

Birth and demise of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethyan Ocean: A review from the Gerze area of central Tibet

S Li, C Yin, C Guilmette, L Ding, J Zhang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Reconstructing the evolution of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethyan Ocean (BNTO) plays an
indispensable role in understanding the linkage between Gondwana dispersion and Tibetan …

[PDF][PDF] Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses

P Kapp, PG DeCelles - American Journal of Science, 2019 - ajsonline.org
The Himalayan-Tibetan orogen culminated during the Cenozoic India--Asia collision, but its
geological framework and initial growth were fundamentally the result of multiple, previous …

[HTML][HTML] Plate tectonics in the late Paleozoic

M Domeier, TH Torsvik - Geoscience Frontiers, 2014 - Elsevier
As the chronicle of plate motions through time, paleogeography is fundamental to our
understanding of plate tectonics and its role in shaping the geology of the present-day. To …

Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of the southern Qiangtang basin: Implications for the Lhasa‐Qiangtang collision timing

A Ma, X Hu, E Garzanti, Z Han… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The Mesozoic stratigraphic record of the southern Qiangtang basin in central Tibet records
the evolution and closure of the Bangong‐Nujiang ocean to the south. The Jurassic …

Pre-Cenozoic geologic history of the central and northern Tibetan Plateau and the role of Wilson cycles in constructing the Tethyan orogenic system

C Wu, A Yin, AV Zuza, J Zhang, W Liu… - Lithosphere, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In order to better constrain the evolution of the Tethyan orogenic system, we conducted an
integrated investigation involving U-Pb dating of igneous and detrital zircon, geochemical …

Growth of the Qaidam Basin during Cenozoic exhumation in the northern Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from depositional patterns and multiproxy detrital provenance …

MA Bush, JE Saylor, BK Horton, J Nie - Lithosphere, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sedimentologic and provenance analyses for the Qaidam Basin in the northern Tibetan
Plateau help to elucidate the stratigraphic signatures of initial deformation and exhumation …

Paleomagnetic data bearing on the Mesozoic deformation of the Qiangtang Block: Implications for the evolution of the Paleo-and Meso-Tethys

M Yan, D Zhang, X Fang, H Ren, W Zhang, J Zan… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
Paleomagnetism has played an important role in quantifying the Mesozoic evolution of
“Proto-Tibet”. In this paper, we present new paleomagnetic data from five Middle-Upper …

Tectonics of the Eastern Kunlun Range: Cenozoic reactivation of a Paleozoic‐early Mesozoic orogen

C Wu, AV Zuza, X Chen, L Ding, DA Levy, C Liu… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Eastern Kunlun Range in north Tibet, located along the northern margin of the
eastern Tethyan orogenic system, records evidence for continental break‐up and ocean …

The Ailao Shan–Red River shear zone revisited: Timing and tectonic implications

J Liu, X Chen, Y Tang, Z Song, W Wang - GSA Bulletin, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Continental strike-slip shear zones that may bear important information about the evolution
of convergent tectonics often occur to accommodate plate convergence. When and how …