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Cenozoic Tectonics of Asia: Effects of a Continental Collision: Features of recent continent... 1975 2026 1992 2009 3.6k
  1. Cenozoic Tectonics of Asia: Effects of a Continental Collision: Features of recent continental tectonics in Asia can be interpreted as results of the India-Eurasia collision (1975)
    Péter Molnár, P. Tapponnier Science
  2. Propagating extrusion tectonics in Asia: New insights from simple experiments with plasticine (1982)
    P. Tapponnier, G. Peltzer et al. Geology
  3. On the mechanics of the collision between India and Asia (1986)
    P. Tapponnier, G. Peltzer et al. Geological Society London Special Publications
  4. The Ailao Shan/Red River metamorphic belt: Tertiary left-lateral shear between Indochina and South China (1990)
    P. Tapponnier, Robin Lacassin et al. Nature
  5. Crustal thickening in Gansu-Qinghai, lithospheric mantle subduction, and oblique, strike-slip controlled growth of the Tibet plateau (1998)
    Bertrand Meyer, P. Tapponnier et al. Geophysical Journal International
  6. Active thrusting and folding along the northern Tien Shan and Late Cenozoic rotation of the Tarim relative to Dzungaria and Kazakhstan (1993)
    Jean‐Philippe Avouac, P. Tapponnier et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  7. New constraints on the structure, thermochronology, and timing of the Ailao Shan‐Red River shear zone, SE Asia (2001)
    Philippe Hervé Leloup, Nicolas Arnaud et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  8. Tectonics of the Qinling Belt: build-up and evolution of eastern Asia (1985)
    Maurice Mattauer, Ph. Matte et al. Nature
  9. On causal links between flood basalts and continental breakup (1999)
    Vincent Courtillot, Claude Jaupart et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  10. Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the northern edge of the Tibetan plateau: fission-track constraints (2001)
    Marc Jolivet, M Brunel et al. Tectonophysics

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Citing Papers

Pulsed rise and growth of the Tibetan Plateau to its northern margin since ca. 30 Ma
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Greater India Basin hypothesis and a two-stage Cenozoic collision between India and Asia
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Works of P. Tapponnier being referenced

Reconstruction of the deformed collision zone Between India and Asia by backward motion of lithospheric blocks
2003
Cretaceous paleomagnetic results from western Tibet and tectonic implications
1993
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
P. Tapponnier 18503 3451 3776 135 20.6k
Paul Tapponnier 19332 3949 4061 150 22.1k
L. H. Royden 17197 3482 2314 115 20.0k
B. C. Burchfiel 13723 3169 2281 121 16.1k
Philip England 18982 3449 1477 139 21.4k
Gordon Lister 14118 1440 2014 165 15.9k
Xavier Le Pichon 14162 3241 2933 200 17.6k
P.R. Cobbold 9372 1524 2007 146 11.6k
R. S. White 12452 1613 2735 224 13.8k
An Yin 24908 3903 2987 222 28.2k
Laurent Jolivet 18617 2106 1494 219 20.0k

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