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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. Mantle dynamics, uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, and the Indian Monsoon (1993)
    Péter Molnár, Philip England et al. Reviews of Geophysics
  3. Continuous deformation of the Tibetan Plateau from global positioning system data (2004)
    Peizhen Zhang, Zheng‐Kang Shen et al. Geology
  4. Late Cenozoic uplift of mountain ranges and global climate change: chicken or egg? (1990)
    Péter Molnár, Philip England Nature
  5. Active faulting and tectonics in China (1977)
    Paul Tapponnier, Péter Molnár Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  6. Convective instability of a thickened boundary layer and its relevance for the thermal evolution of continental convergent belts (1981)
    G. A. Houseman, Dan McKenzie et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  7. Focal depths of intracontinental and intraplate earthquakes and their implications for the thermal and mechanical properties of the lithosphere (1983)
    Wang‐Ping Chen, Péter Molnár Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  8. Distribution of stresses in the descending lithosphere from a global survey of focal‐mechanism solutions of mantle earthquakes (1971)
    Bryan L. Isacks, Péter Molnár Reviews of Geophysics
  9. Active faulting and cenozoic tectonics of the Tien Shan, Mongolia, and Baykal Regions (1979)
    Paul Tapponnier, Péter Molnár Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  10. Relative motion of the Nazca (Farallon) and South American Plates since Late Cretaceous time (1987)
    Péter Molnár et al. Tectonics
  11. Slip-line field theory and large-scale continental tectonics (1976)
    Paul Tapponnier, Péter Molnár Nature
  12. Orographic Controls on Climate and Paleoclimate of Asia: Thermal and Mechanical Roles for the Tibetan Plateau (2010)
    Péter Molnár, William R. Boos et al. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  13. Tectonics of the Caribbean and Middle America Regions from Focal Mechanisms and Seismicity (1969)
    Péter Molnár, Lynn R. Sykes Geological Society of America Bulletin
  14. Active tectonics of Tibet (1978)
    Péter Molnár, Paul Tapponnier Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  15. Numerical Modelling of Instantaneous Plate Tectonics (1974)
    J. B. Minster, T. H. Jordan et al. Geophysical Journal International
  16. Slowing of India's convergence with Eurasia since 20 Ma and its implications for Tibetan mantle dynamics (2009)
    Péter Molnár, Joann M. Stock Tectonics
  17. Plate Tectonics of the Red Sea and East Africa (1970)
    Dan McKenzie, D. Rhodri Davies et al. Nature
  18. Himalayan Seismic Hazard (2001)
    Roger Bilham, Vinod K. Gaur et al. Science

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Jean‐Philippe Avouac 21256 4767 1833 307 25.9k
Lin Ding 17184 4047 2331 382 21.3k
Paul Tapponnier 19332 3949 4061 150 22.1k
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L. H. Royden 17197 3482 2314 115 20.0k

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