Research suggests strong Indian crust thrust beneath the Tibetan Plateau
Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 07:02
in Earth & Climate
For many years, most scientists studying Tibet have thought that a very hot and very weak lower and middle crust underlies its plateau, flowing like a fluid. Now, a team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology is questioning this long-held belief and proposing that an entirely different mechanism is at play...