Exploring a lost ocean in the Tibetan Plateau: Birth, growth, and demise of the Bangong-Nujiang Ocean

X Hu, A Ma, W Xue, E Garzanti, Y Cao, SM Li… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The vast eastern-Tethyan oceanic domain that throughout the Mesozoic extended between
Gondwana and Eurasia was a puzzle of larger and smaller microcontinents separated by …

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 …

The andean-type gangdese mountains: paleoelevation record from the paleocene–eocene linzhou basin

L Ding, Q Xu, Y Yue, H Wang, F Cai, S Li - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Paleoelevation reconstruction using oxygen isotopes is making a significant contribution to
understanding the Cenozoic uplift of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. This paper …

Zircon U–Pb age and Hf isotopic compositions of Mesozoic granitoids in southern Qiangtang, Tibet: Implications for the subduction of the Bangong–Nujiang Tethyan …

D Liu, R Shi, L Ding, Q Huang, X Zhang, Y Yue… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
The southern Qiangtang magmatic belt was formed by the north-dipping subduction of the
Bangong–Nujiang Tethyan Ocean during Mesozoic. To better understand the petrogenesis …

Subduction of the Bangong–Nujiang Ocean: constraints from granites in the Bangong Co area, Tibet

D Liu, Q Huang, S Fan, L Zhang, R Shi… - Geological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We report geochronologic, whole‐rock geochemical and Sr–Nd isotopic analyses of the
granites that are exposed to both the north and the inside of the Bangong–Nujiang Suture …

Jurassic tectonic evolution of Tibetan plateau: a review of bangong-nujiang Meso-Tethys Ocean

Y Liu, S Li, Q Zhai, Y Tang, P Hu, R Guo, Y Liu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Jurassic subduction of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethys Ocean is recognized as a
significant event in the geotectonic evolution of Tibetan Plateau. This study focuses on the …

The subduction-accretion history of the Bangong-Nujiang Ocean: Constraints from provenance and geochronology of the Mesozoic strata near Gaize, central Tibet

S Li, L Ding, C Guilmette, J Fu, Q Xu, Y Yue… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
The Mesozoic strata, within the Bangong-Nujiang suture zone in central Tibet, recorded
critical information about the subduction-accretion processes of the Bangong-Nujiang …

Initial growth of the northern Lhasaplano, Tibetan Plateau in the early Late Cretaceous (ca. 92 Ma)

W Lai, X Hu, E Garzanti, G Sun… - GSA …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Constraining the growth of the Tibetan Plateau in time and space is critical for testing
geodynamic models and climatic changes at the regional and global scale. The Lhasa block …

Sedimentary record of Jurassic northward subduction of the Bangong–Nujiang Ocean: insights from detrital zircons

TT Huang, JF Xu, JL Chen, J Wu… - International Geology …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The subduction polarity and related arc–magmatic evolutional history of the Bangong–
Nujiang Ocean, which separated the South Qiangtang terrane to the north from the North …