Tibetan Plateau Formation: tracing material flow around the East-Himalayan syntaxis

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Erwin Appel; Dr. István Dunkl; Professor Dr. Lothar Ratschbacher
• Subject Area: Palaeontology
• Term: from 2008 to 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 68871356

• Final Report Year: 2014

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• (2014). Cenozoic clockwise rotation of the Tengchong block, southeastern Tibetan Plateau: A paleomagnetic and geochronologic study. Tectonophysics, 628, 105-122
  Lothar Ratschbacher, Erwin Appel und Mark Handy Kornfeld, D., Eckert, S., Appel, E., Ratschbacher, L., Sonntag, B. L., Pfänder, J. A., ... & Liu, D.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2014.04.032)
• (2014). Clockwise rotation of the Baoshan Block due to southeastward tectonic escape of Tibetan crust since the Oligocene. Geophysical Journal International, 197, 149-163
  Kornfeld, D., Eckert, S., Appel, E., Ratschbacher, L., Pfänder, J., Liu, D., & Ding, L.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu009)