Uplifting mechanism of the Tibetan Plateau inferred from the characteristics of crustal structures

X Liang, L Chen, X Tian, Y Chu, W Li - Science China Earth Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau has been known for its highest elevation and thickest crust on
earth, and become a key region for comprehending the rheology and tectonic evolution of …

Large-scale topography of the north Tibetan ranges as a proxy for contrasted crustal-scale deformation modes

M Jolivet, F Cheng, AV Zuza, Z Guo… - Journal of the …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Forming the northern margin of the Cenozoic Himalayan–Tibetan orogen, the area
surrounding the Qaidam Basin is a key region to study the mechanisms that govern the long …

Revisiting the mechanisms of mid-Tertiary uplift of the NE Tibetan Plateau

HH Wei, GL Wu, L Ding, LG Fan, L Li… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Contrasting views exist on timing and mechanisms of Tertiary crustal uplift in the NE Tibetan
Plateau based on different approaches, with many models attributing surface uplift to crustal …

Lithospheric structures of and tectonic implications for the central–east Tibetan plateau inferred from joint tomography of receiver functions and surface waves

M Feng, M An, J Mechie, W Zhao… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present an updated joint tomographic method to simultaneously invert receiver function
waveforms and surface wave dispersions for a 3-DS-wave velocity (Vs) model. By applying …

Lateral growth mechanism of proto‐Tibetan Plateau in the Late Paleogene: implications from detailed crustal structures of the Hoh Xil Basin

Y Wei, R He, X Yuan, W Li, Z Ji… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Hoh Xil Basin (HXB) was located in the foreland of the proto‐Tibetan Plateau
and has obtained a high elevation and thick crust since the Late Oligocene. However, crust …

A near-surface fine-velocity structure in the western Hoh Xil Basin revealed by first-arrival travel-time tomography from a deep seismic reflection profile

G Wu, Z Lu, W Li, G Wang, Y Cheng, S Chen, Y Cai… - Lithos, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Hoh Xil Basin (HXB) is a key site for continental sedimentation from the Late
Cretaceous to the Neogene on the northern-central Tibetan Plateau and provides a record …

Deep crustal structure across northeastern Tibet from P receiver functions

D Murodov, J Zhao, X Wang, M Murodov… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The uplift mechanism and deep crustal deformation of the northeast of the Tibetan plateau in
response to the Cenozoic India-Asian collision are still poorly constrained. Previous studies …

Regularizing the 3-D teleseismic wavefield for receiver function imaging using a radial basis function

C Xie, Y Fang, J Zhang - Geophysical Journal International, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Receiver function is important for imaging crustal and upper-mantle discontinuities.
However, sparsely scattered stations could introduce imaging artefacts or misinterpretations …

Post-critical SsPmp and its applications to Virtual Deep Seismic Sounding (VDSS) – 2: 1-D imaging of the crust/mantle and joint constraints with receiver functions

T Liu, SL Klemperer, G Ferragut… - Geophysical Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY Virtual Deep Seismic Sounding (VDSS) has emerged as a novel method to
image the crust–mantle boundary (CMB) and potentially other lithospheric boundaries. In …

Thickness of the Saudi Arabian crust

AR Blanchette, S Klemperer, WD Mooney, HM Zahran - 2020 - eartharxiv.org
We analyzed P-wave receiver functions from seismic stations covering most of Saudi Arabia
to map the thickness of the crust across the Arabian plate. We present an update of crustal …