Doug Nelson

TL;DR: There is a prominent south-dipping converter in the uppermost mantle beneath northern Tibet that might represent the top of the Eurasian mantle lithosphere underthrusting the northern margin of the plateau.

TL;DR: Magnetotelluric exploration has shown that the middle and lower crust is anomalously conductive across most of the north-to-south width of the Tibetan plateau, suggesting that partial melt and/or aqueous fluids are widespread within the Tibetan crust.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the direction and extent of seismic polarization anisotropy for the INDEPTH III seismic array deployed in central Tibet during 1998-1999 and observed substantial splitting with delay times from 1 to 2 s, and fast directions varying from E-W to NE-SW, was observed for stations in the Qiangtang terrane and northernmost Lhasa terrane.

TL;DR: In this article, the Curie isotherm is assumed to reside in the upper crust across the Tibetan plateau (∼15 km depth), implying that granite minimum melt temperature ( ∼600-650 °C) is also achieved in the Upper Crust across the plateau ( ∼16-18 km depth).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the INDEPTH III seismic array to detect lithospheric-scale deformation structures of the central Tibetan Plateau from the central Lhasa terrane to the central Qiangtang terrane.