Xiu-Zheng Zhang

TL;DR: Petrological and geochemical data on magmas erupted 4.7–0.3 Myr ago in central and northern Tibet demonstrate that they were generated by partial melting of crustal rocks at temperatures of 700–1,050 °C and pressures of 0.5–1.5 GPa, inferred that crustal melting played a key role in triggering crustal weakening and outward crustal flow in the expansion of the Tibetan Plateau.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the discovery of Silurian HP basic granulites from Central Qiangtang on the Tibetan Plateau and revealed a three-stage metamorphic history based on inclusions, reaction textures, and garnet zoning patterns.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report detailed petrological, mineralogical, phase equilibria, and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) zircon and rutile U-Pb age data for the Dong Co eclogites at the western segment of the Bangong-Nujiang suture zone, central Tibet.

TL;DR: In this paper, a suite of ophiolite suites from the Longmu Co-Shuanghu Suture Zone (LSSZ) in the Xiangtaohu area, central Qiangtang block, Tibet is reported.

TL;DR: The presence and/or generation mechanism of a mantle plume associated with early Permian rifting on the northern margin of Gondwana are topics of debate as discussed by the authors, with the aim of assessing if a mantle-plume formed in this region during the early permian, using the LAICP-MS U-Pb zircon ages, whole-rock geochemistry, and Sr-Nd isotope data for high-Ti mafic dykes from southern Qiangtang, Tibet.