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Reanimating eastern Tibet

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The high eastern Tibetan Plateau was thought to have formed from an inflow of material from the lower crust. The cooling histories of rocks exposed at the plateau margin, however, reveal protracted, episodic growth, suggesting that faulting also played a role.

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Figure 1: Schematic cross-sections of the Longmen Shan margin of the eastern Tibetan Plateau.

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Oskin, M. Reanimating eastern Tibet. Nature Geosci 5, 597–598 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1564

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