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

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Uplift mode in <strong>Tibet</strong> I<br />

Subduction Model : Indian plate is underthrusting<br />

entirely into <strong>Tibet</strong>, proposed by Arg<strong>and</strong>, 1924<br />

1 <strong>The</strong> Indian plate plunged at<br />

Himalayas <strong>and</strong> extended<br />

northerly beneath the <strong>Tibet</strong>an<br />

crust<br />

North<br />

South<br />

2 <strong>Tibet</strong> is raised to the present<br />

topography progressively from<br />

south to north.<br />

Boosting in part, initiated in<br />

south <strong>and</strong> migrating to north<br />

Himalayas<br />

Tarim

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