Strong Indian crust thrust beneath the Tibetan Plateau, new study suggests

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 13:30 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, scientists are questioning this long-held belief and proposing that an entirely different mechanism is at play.

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