A new understanding of the uplift of the Qinghai-Xizang (TIBET) plateau |
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Authors: | Chen Guoda |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Diwa Theory and Metallogeny, Central South University of Technology, 410083 Changsha, China |
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Abstract: | The uplift of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau happened in different crustal movements and different time from those of
the collision of Asia continent with the allochthonous India crustobody, and the uplift occurred very long after the finish
of the collision. According to its temporal evolution, the uplift happened in another active stage of the mantle creep flow
after the active stage resulting in the collision and the interruption of the 140Ma’s quiet stage. On the basis of the dynamic
analysis, the uplift resulted from the multiple compressing stresses in the reactivation stage after weakening of the colliding
stress and the following compressing stress, and after the interruption of the stable stage dominating the vertical movements
and represented by formation of the universal Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) ancient platform. It was the production of another stress
field existing in another crustobody evolution stage and growth age. In the light of the nature of the orogeny, the uplift
was caused by the intracontinental Diwa (geodepression)-type orogeny after converging connection of the Central Asia Crustobody
and the India crustbody which immediately became a part of the Asia continent, and hence after the substitution for the colliding
stress and the following compressing stress by the platform-type crustal movements.
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foudation of China
Synopsis of the author Chen Guoda, professor, Academician of Academia Sinica, born in 1912. Major research fields: Geotectonics and Metallogeny.
He broached a new tectonic theory in 1956 called Actived or Diwa (Geodepression) region and a new discipline in 1991 called
Crustobody Geotectionic Theory. |
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Keywords: | mechanism of uplift crustobody Diwa (geodepression) orogeny Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) plateau |
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