Uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Lithospheric Structure and Structural Geomorphology of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

作     者：CUI Junwen, LI Pengwu and LI Li Institute of Geology, Chinese Acacemy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037 China 

作者机构：Institute of Geology Chinese Acacemy of Geological Sciences Beijing 100037 China 

出 版 物：《Continental Dynamics》 (大陆动力学(英文版))

年 卷 期：2001年第6卷第2期

页      面：29-37页

学科分类：07[理学] 0705[理学-地理学] 070501[理学-自然地理学] 

主　　题：geomorphotogic pattern deep-seated thermal-uplift subduction Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 

摘      要：Through a review of the history of the study of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and an analysis of various dynamic models of the uplift and on the basis of the strong inhomogeneity of the lithospheric structure of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and tripartite and symmetric structural geomorphologic pattern, the authors propose that the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the result of integrated action of bidirectional differential subduction of the Indian block and the Tarim-Alxa block and the deep-seated thermal-uplift spreading beneath the interior of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Subduction is an important mechanism of the uplift and thermal-uplift spreading is the direct cause.