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Passive Continental Margins and Abyssal Plains
Nearly the entire Atlantic Ocean and large portions of the Indian Ocean are surrounded by passive continental margins (Fig. 4.1). In contrast, the...
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Timing and mechanism of opening the Neo-Tethys Ocean: Constraints from mélanges in the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone
The evolution and final closure of the Neo-Tethys Ocean are one of the most important geological events that have occurred on Earth since the...
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Teleseismic shear wave splitting and intracontinental collision deformation of the northern Tibetan Plateau and the eastern Tarim basin
Shear wave splitting measurement of teleseismic data has been used to determine the fast polarization directions and delay times for 38 temporary...
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Neotectonics at the SE Continental Margin of the Korean Peninsula: Implications for the Back-Arc Region Behind the SW Japan Arc
The geological evolution of the SE continental margin of the Korean Peninsula resulted from crustal extension with back-arc rifting to spreading...
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Tectonic Block Model of Continental Earthquakes in China: Twenty-years Retrospective
At the beginning of the 21 st century, the ‘active tectonic block model’, described by hierarchical crustal tectonic blocks, was proposed to explain...
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Earthquakes in the Continental Interiors: An Overview
The broad framework of plate tectonics explains how the elastic strain accumulated within the continental interiors is released by moderate to large...
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Cenozoic eastward growth of the Tibetan Plateau controlled by tearing of the Indian slab
Formation of the Tibetan Plateau is generally ascribed to the Cenozoic India–Asia collision. However, the origin of along-strike deformation of the...
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Petrography and geochemistry of Palaeogene sandstones of Geku Formation, Yinkiong Group, Arunachal Pradesh, NE India: implications on provenance and tectonic setting
Detrital mineralogy and geochemical (major element oxides) approach, with the support of heavy mineral and clay mineralogical study, the...
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Geodynamic processes of the southeastern Neo-Tethys Ocean and the formation mechanism of the curved subduction system in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is located at the intersection of the Tethys and Pacific domains. The superimposed effects of the two tectonic domains have resulted...
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Contractional Theory, Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
Earth’s tectonicContinental drift system concerns the movement of the lithosphere, the relatively brittleBrittle outermost solid Earth, which...
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The Roof of the World: High Mountains of Asia
The fierce continental collision of India and Eurasia not only created the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau but also all other ranges with summit...
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Introduction
The Indian subcontinent as a singular geographic entity includes Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan, separated from the rest of Asia by the...
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Unravelling submarine channel morphology in the lower Bengal Fan through ultra-high-resolution autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) survey
The Bengal Fan, the largest submarine fan in the world, spanning the whole Bay of Bengal resulted from the India-Asia collision event and subsequent...
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Prototethyan orogenesis in southwest Yunnan and Southeast Asia
The Prototethyan Ocean has been suggested as an Early Paleozoic Ocean developed at the Gondwana northern margin. However, its spatial pattern,...
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Continental Lithosphere
The chapter offers a concise introduction to the constitution of the lithosphere. In the course of this discussion, the conceptual subdivisions of...
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Origin and tectonic setting of low-Si alkaline magma
Despite of the relatively rare occurrence of alkaline igneous rocks on Earth, they are the most diverse group of igneous rocks due to variations in...
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Multi-spherical interactions and mechanisms of hydrocarbon enrichment in the Southeast Asian archipelagic tectonic system
Global cooling began since 50 Ma, but a warm climate was maintained in the archipelagic tectonic system in Southeast Asia where a wealth of Cenozoic...
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Subduction Zones, Island Arcs and Active Continental Margins
Subduction zones are created when two lithospheric plates move against each other and one of the two plates descends under the other through the...
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Plate Tectonics and Mountain Building
One of the greatest strengths of the modern plate tectonics theory is its ability to explain the origin of virtually all of the present and most...