Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Uplift and Environmental Effects

Author: Zheng Du Yao Tan Dòng
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Based on a large amount of original data and materials, this book summarizes the timing of the initial collision between the Indian continent and the Eurasian continent, the tectonic relationships at the scale of the lithosphere between the mountain-basin belts of the southern and northern margins of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the sequence of major tectonic deformation and uplift events in the northern part of the plateau during the Cenozoic.