Why ‘the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ is a myth

The often-used phrase ‘the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ implies a flat-surfaced Tibet rose as a coherent entity, and that uplift was driven entirely by the collision and northward movement of India. Here, we argue that these are misconceptions derived in large part from simplistic geodynamic and c...

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Published in:Natl Sci Rev
Main Authors: Spicer, Robert A, Su, Tao, Valdes, Paul J, Farnsworth, Alexander, Wu, Fei-Xiang, Shi, Gongle, Spicer, Teresa E V, Zhou, Zhekun
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2020
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Earth Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8288424/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34691550
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa091
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