Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9951466 Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2018 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

- Southward subduction dynamics of the Asian lithosphere below Tibet.
- Maintained during the entire collision by mostly horizontal mantle flow.
- Transmission of far field forces related to the underlying global convection.
- Slab pull as the prominent driver of continental plate tectonics fail.
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