EXTENSION DURING CONTINENTAL CONVERGENCE, WITH APPLICATION TO THE TIBETAN PLATEAU
The Tibetan plateau is the product of crustal thickening caused by the collision between India and Asia and is the largest active example of extensional tectonics in a zone of continental collision. Throughout most of the Tertiary, the tectonics of the plateau were dominated by north-south shortenin...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1989
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