James Ni

TL;DR: The results suggest that during Neogene time the underthrusting Indian crust has acted as a plunger, displacing the molten middle crust to the north while at the same time contributing to this layer by melting and ductile flow.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the present tectonics of the Himalayan continental collision zone using fault plane solutions and well-determined focal depths of medium-sized earthquakes, topography and Landsat imagery in conjunction with seismicity maps, cross sections and available geological information.

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: In this article, the authors used the data from the German Depth Profiling of Tibet and the Himalayas (GEDEPTH) project to detect inclined structures penetrating the crust at the Zangbo suture.

TL;DR: A tomographic image of the upper mantle beneath central Tibet from INDEPTH data has revealed a subvertical high-velocity zone from ∼100- to ∼400-kilometers depth that is interpreted to be downwelling Indian mantle lithosphere, which could explain the presence of warm mantle beneath north-central Tibet.