Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau with the Himalaya and
neighboring ranges constitutes by far the widest and highest orogenic system on
earth.
Tibet
is neither a mere “high plateau” nor just a “median mass,” but an intensely
folded mountain country with several east–west trending fold belts (Stöcklin 1980). Its crustal thickness frequently
exceeds 70 km
It is assumed that
the Indian lower crust is underplated below Tibet. In this process the lower
crust experience multiple slicing and stacking leading to the anomalous crustal
thickness of Tibet, whereas the decoupled Indian upper crust was thrust towards
the south, forming the Himalaya
The Tibetan Plateau
is made up of a number of microcontinents, flysch complexes, and island arcs.
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