Paul Kapp

TL;DR: A geological and geochronologic investigation of the Nima area along the Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Bangong suture of central Tibet provides well-dated records of contractional deformation and sedimentation during mid-Cretaceous and mid-Tertiary time as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The geologic map pattern of the Qiangtang terrane in central Tibet defines a >600km-long and up to 270km-wide east-plunging structural culmination as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used 13,441 new or existing U-Pb ages of zircon crystals from strata in the Lesser Himalayan, Greater Himalayan and Tethyan sequences in the Himalaya, the Lhasa, Qiangtang, and Nan Shan-Qilian Shan-Altun Shan terranes in Tibet, and platformal strata of the Tarim craton to constrain changes in provenance through time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that detrital chromium-rich spinels of ophiolite affinity (TiO2 generally < 0.1 wt%) were obtained from the Yarlung Zangbo suture in south central Tibet.

TL;DR: In this article, an alternative model was proposed to explain key features of Cordilleran orogenic systems, such as cyclical trends in the flux and composition of magma supplied to the upper plate, and the foundering of arc roots.