The crustal shortening /thickening within high Tibet and its tectonic ...

Tibetan Plateau : Tectonic Setting
1) India and Asia collide each other along
Himalayas at 40-60 Ma
2) Since then, India, subcontinent is moving
northward at 40-55 mm/a
3) Tibet is deforming in the Cenozoic era ,
associated with various styles of tectonic
features in continent
faulting, metamorphism, sedimentation,
magmatism, earthquake, so on
As summaried by Molnar & Tapponnier,
Science,189, 419, 1975
Features of recent continental tectonics in Asia
can be interpreted as results of the India-
Eurasia collision.
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Tapponnier et al., Science ,
294,1671, 2001