Dynamics of closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean: A perspective from the Southeast Asian Tethys realm

Formation of the Cenozoic Ailao Shan mid-crustal tectonic discontinuity: Role of Oligo-Miocene stratified sub-horizontal middle to lower crustal flow in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2021) Wenkui Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Neoproterozoic to Early Triassic tectono-stratigraphic evolution of Indochina and adjacent areas: A review with new data

(2020) Tri Van Tran et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Ordo-Silurian assemblage in the Indochina interior: Geochronological, elemental, and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf-O isotopic constraints of early Paleozoic granitoids in South Laos

(2020) Yuejun Wang et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Timing of the final closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean: Constraints from provenance of early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in West Kunlun, NW China

(2020) Peng Wang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Paleomagnetic Constraint on the Carboniferous Paleoposition of Indochina and Its Implications for the Evolution of Eastern Paleo‐Tethys Ocean

(2020) Yonggang Yan et al.   TECTONICS

Deflating the LLSVPs: Bundles of Mantle Thermochemical Plumes Rather Than Thick Stagnant “Piles”

(2020) Anne Davaille et al.   TECTONICS

Early Paleozoic magmatism in northern Kontum Massif, Central Vietnam: Insights into tectonic evolution of the eastern Indochina Block

(2020) Wei Jiang et al.   LITHOS

Evolution of the Indochina block from its formation to amalgamation with Asia: Constraints from protoliths in the Kontum Massif, Vietnam

(2020) Nobuhiko Nakano et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Multistage Remobilization of the Southwestern Margin of the South China Plate: Insights from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Hf Isotope of the Granitic Rocks from the Yao Shan Complex, Southeastern Tibet Plateau

(2019) Xiaoyu Chen et al.   TECTONICS

Geochronological, geochemical, and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic characteristics of granitoids in eastern Tibet and implications for tectonic correlation with southeastern Asia

(2019) Wang Shifeng et al.   Lithosphere

Early Paleoproterozoic magmatism in the Yangtze Block: Evidence from zircon U-Pb ages, Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes and geochemistry of ca. 2.3 Ga and 2.1 Ga granitic rocks in the Phan Si Pan Complex, north Vietnam

(2019) Tianyu Zhao et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Cambrian intra–oceanic arc trondhjemite and tonalite in the Tam Ky–Phuoc Son Suture Zone, central Vietnam: Implications for the early Paleozoic assembly of the Indochina Block

(2019) Quyen Minh Nguyen et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Cyclical one-way continental rupture-drift in the Tethyan evolution: Subduction-driven plate tectonics

(2019) Bo Wan et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

The Ailao Shan−Red River shear zone revisited: Timing and tectonic implications

(2019) Junlai Liu et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Does Neoproterozoic Nam Co formation in Northwest Vietnam belong to South China or Indochina?

(2019) Xueyao Zhou et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Proto- to Paleo-Tethyan evolution of the eastern margin of Simao block

(2018) Lin Yang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Early Paleozoic or Early-Middle Triassic collision between the South China and Indochina Blocks: the controversy resolved? Structural insights from the Kon Tum massif (Central Vietnam)

(2018) Michel Faure et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

The westward drift of the lithosphere: A tidal ratchet?

(2018) A. Carcaterra et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Break-away of South China from Gondwana: Insights from the Silurian high-Nb basalts and associated magmatic rocks in the Diancangshan-Ailaoshan fold belt (SW China)

(2018) Huichuan Liu et al.   LITHOS

Geological reconstructions of the East Asian blocks: From the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Pangea

(2018) Guochun Zhao et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Paleotethys slab pull, self-lubricated weak lithospheric zones, poloidal and toroidal plate motions, and Gondwana tectonics

(2017) Haroldo Vizán et al.   Geosphere

Detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes and provenance of Late Neoproterozoic and Early Paleozoic sediments of the Simao and Baoshan blocks, SW China: Implications for Proto-Tethys and Paleo-Tethys evolution and Gondwana reconstruction

(2017) Tianyu Zhao et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Provenance and tectonic evolution of Lower Paleozoic–Upper Mesozoic strata from Sibumasu terrane, Myanmar

(2017) Fulong Cai et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Miocene structural evolution and exhumation of the Ximeng dome in Yunnan, southeastern Tibet: Implications for intraplate deformation during extrusion of the Sundaland block

(2017) Xiaoyu Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Neoproterozoic granitoids along the Ailao Shan-Red River belt: Zircon U-Pb geochronology, Hf isotope analysis and tectonic implications

(2017) Xiaoyu Chen et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Horizontal mantle flow controls subduction dynamics

(2017) E. Ficini et al.   Scientific Reports

Closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean and Early Paleozoic amalgamation of microcontinental blocks in East Asia

(2017) Sanzhong Li et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Reconstructing South China in Phanerozoic and Precambrian supercontinents

(2017) Peter A. Cawood et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Closure of the East Paleotethyan Ocean and amalgamation of the Eastern Cimmerian and Southeast Asia continental fragments

(2017) Yuejun Wang et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Tectono-magmatic evolution of the Gaoligong belt, southeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau: Constraints from granitic gneisses and granitoid intrusions

(2016) Shao-wei Zhao et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The long-wavelength mantle structure and dynamics and implications for large-scale tectonics and volcanism in the Phanerozoic

(2016) Shijie Zhong et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Where was the Ailaoshan Ocean and when did it open: A perspective based on detrital zircon U–Pb age and Hf isotope evidence

(2016) Xiaoping Xia et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Evolution of the Proto-Tethys in the Baoshan block along the East Gondwana margin: constraints from early Palaeozoic magmatism

(2016) Shao-wei Zhao et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Late Permian plume–related magmatism and tectonothermal events in the Kontum Massif, central Vietnam

(2016) Masaaki OWADA et al.   Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

Petrogenesis of middle Ordovician peraluminous granites in the Baoshan block: Implications for the early Paleozoic tectonic evolution along East Gondwana

(2016) Gong-Jian Li et al.   LITHOS

The origin of the Dapingzhang volcanogenic Cu–Pb–Zn ore deposit, Yunnan province, SW China: Constraints from host rock geochemistry and ore Os–Pb–S–C–O–H isotopes

(2016) Wei-Guang Zhu et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

Tectonic evolution of the Sevier and Laramide belts within the North American Cordillera orogenic system

(2015) W. Adolph Yonkee et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Magmatic record of Prototethyan evolution in SW Yunnan, China: Geochemical, zircon U–Pb geochronological and Lu–Hf isotopic evidence from the Huimin metavolcanic rocks in the southern Lancangjiang zone

(2015) Xiaomei Nie et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Contrasting exhumation histories along a crustal-scale strike-slip fault zone: The Eocene to Miocene Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone in southeastern Tibet

(2015) Xiaoyu Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

New tectono-geochronological constraints on timing of shearing along the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone: Implications for genesis of Ailao Shan gold mineralization

(2015) Junlai Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Paleotethyan subduction process revealed from Triassic blueschists in the Lancang tectonic belt of Southwest China

(2015) Weiming Fan et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Tectonically asymmetric Earth: From net rotation to polarized westward drift of the lithosphere

(2015) Carlo Doglioni et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Zircon U-Pb ages, geochemistry, and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic compositions of the Pinghe pluton, Southwest China: implications for the evolution of the early Palaeozoic Proto-Tethys in Southeast Asia

(2014) Shao-wei Zhao et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

The Xuelongshan high strain zone: Cenozoic structural evolution and implications for fault linkages and deformation along the Ailao Shan–Red River shear zone

(2014) Bo Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

U-Pb zircon and CHIME monazite dating of granitoids and high-grade metamorphic rocks from the Eastern and Peninsular Thailand — A new report of Early Paleozoic granite

(2014) T. Kawakami et al.   LITHOS

Locating South China in Rodinia and Gondwana: A fragment of greater India lithosphere?

(2013) Peter A. Cawood et al.   GEOLOGY

Mid-Silurian back-arc spreading at the northeastern margin of Gondwana: The Dapingzhang dacite-hosted massive sulfide deposit, Lancangjiang zone, southwestern Yunnan, China

(2013) Bernd Lehmann et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Gondwana from top to base in space and time

(2013) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

First evidence of the Cambrian basement in Upper Peninsula of Thailand and its implication for crustal and tectonic evolution of the Sibumasu terrane

(2013) Yu-Ling Lin et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The Tam Ky-Phuoc Son Shear Zone in central Vietnam: Tectonic and metallogenic implications

(2013) Hai Thanh Tran et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The boundary between the Simao and Yangtze blocks and their locations in Gondwana and Rodinia: Constraints from detrital and inherited zircons

(2013) Qingfei Wang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The configuration of Greater Gondwana—Evidence from LA ICPMS, U–Pb geochronology of detrital zircons from the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic of Southeast Asia and China

(2013) Clive Burrett et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Tectonic evolution of high-grade metamorphic terranes in central Vietnam: Constraints from large-scale monazite geochronology

(2013) Nobuhiko Nakano et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Gondwana dispersion and Asian accretion: Tectonic and palaeogeographic evolution of eastern Tethys

(2013) I. Metcalfe   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Geochemistry, zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes of granites in the Baoshan Block, Western Yunnan: Implications for Early Paleozoic evolution along the Gondwana margin

(2013) Meiling Dong et al.   LITHOS

Petrogenesis of early Paleozoic peraluminous granite in the Sibumasu Block of SW Yunnan and diachronous accretionary orogenesis along the northern margin of Gondwana

(2013) Yuejun Wang et al.   LITHOS

Gondwana collision

(2013) T. S. Abu-Alam et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

The formation of Pangea

(2013) G.M. Stampfli et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

U-Pb zircon dating of Early Paleozoic gabbro from the Nantinghe ophiolite in the Changning-Menglian suture zone and its geological implication

(2012) BaoDi Wang et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

The importance of slab pull and a global asthenosphere to plate motions

(2012) Joost van Summeren et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

On the role of slab pull in the Cenozoic motion of the Pacific plate

(2012) Claudio Faccenna et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Multiple metamorphic events revealed by zircons from the Diancang Shan−Ailao Shan metamorphic complex, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2012) Fulai Liu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Timing of left-lateral shearing along the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone: constraints from zircon U–Pb ages from granitic rocks in the shear zone along the Ailao Shan Range, Western Yunnan, China

(2012) Yuan Tang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Metamorphic evolution of pelitic–semipelitic granulites in the Kon Tum massif (south-central Vietnam)

(2012) Vu Van Tích et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

Andean-type orogeny in the Himalayas of south Tibet: Implications for early Paleozoic tectonics along the Indian margin of Gondwana

(2012) Xiaoxian Wang et al.   LITHOS

Linking the Indochina block and Gondwana during the Early Paleozoic: Evidence from U–Pb ages and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons

(2012) Tadashi Usuki et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Plate Tectonics, the Wilson Cycle, and Mantle Plumes: Geodynamics from the Top

(2011) Kevin Burke   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Mantle conveyor beneath the Tethyan collisional belt

(2011) Thorsten W. Becker et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lhasa terrane in southern Tibet came from Australia

(2011) D.-C. Zhu et al.   GEOLOGY

Zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopic systematics of the Daping plutonic rocks: Implications for the Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the northeastern margin of the Indochina block, Southwest China

(2011) Xuexiang Qi et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Permo-Triassic granitoids in the northern part of the Truong Son belt, NW Vietnam: Geochronology, geochemistry and tectonic implications

(2011) Junlai Liu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Initiation of left-lateral deformation along the Ailao Shan–Red River shear zone: new microstructural, textural, and geochronological constraints from the Diancang Shan metamorphic massif, SW Yunnan, China

(2011) Shuyun Cao et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Exhumation of the Diancang Shan metamorphic complex along the Ailao Shan-Red River belt, southwestern Yunnan, China: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology

(2011) Shuyun Cao et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

The nature of the Ailao Shan–Red River (ASRR) shear zone: Constraints from structural, microstructural and fabric analyses of metamorphic rocks from the Diancang Shan, Ailao Shan and Day Nui Con Voi massifs

(2011) Junlai Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Indian and African plate motions driven by the push force of the Réunion plume head

(2011) Steven C. Cande et al.   NATURE

Detrital zircon geochronology of pre-Tertiary strata in the Tibetan-Himalayan orogen

(2011) G. Gehrels et al.   TECTONICS

A brief history of the Rheic Ocean

(2011) R. Damian Nance et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Protracted continental collisions argue for continental plates driven by basal traction

(2010) Walter Alvarez   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Oligo-Miocene shearing along the Ailao Shan–Red River shear zone: Constraints from structural analysis and zircon U/Pb geochronology of magmatic rocks in the Diancang Shan massif, SE Tibet, China

(2010) Shuyun Cao et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Tectonic framework and Phanerozoic evolution of Sundaland

(2010) Ian Metcalfe   GONDWANA RESEARCH

40Ar/39Ar ages of granitoids from the Truong Son fold belt and Kontum massif in Laos

(2010) Kenzo SANEMATSU et al.   Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

Structure, kinematics and ages of transpression during strain-partitioning in the Chongshan shear zone, western Yunnan, China

(2010) Bo Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Metamorphism, anatexis, zircon ages and tectonic evolution of the Gongshan block in the northern Indochina continent—An eastern extension of the Lhasa Block

(2010) Shuguang Song et al.   LITHOS

Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary

(2010) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   NATURE

Metallogenic Province and Large Scale Mineralization of Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits in China

(2010) Changming Wang et al.   RESOURCE GEOLOGY

Early Paleozoic medium-pressure metamorphism in central Vietnam: evidence from SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages

(2009) Tadashi Usuki et al.   GEOSCIENCES JOURNAL

Evolution of the Rheic Ocean

(2009) R. Damian Nance et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Permo-Triassic Barrovian-type metamorphism in the ultrahigh-temperature Kontum Massif, central Vietnam: Constraints on continental collision tectonics in Southeast Asia

(2009) Nobuhiko Nakano et al.   ISLAND ARC

Devonian to Permian plate tectonic cycle of the Paleo-Tethys Orogen in southwest China (I): Geochemistry of ophiolites, arc/back-arc assemblages and within-plate igneous rocks

(2009) Ping Jian et al.   LITHOS

Early Permian seafloor to continental arc magmatism in the eastern Paleo-Tethys: U–Pb age and Nd–Sr isotope data from the southern Lancangjiang zone, Yunnan, China

(2009) D. Hennig et al.   LITHOS

Devonian to Permian plate tectonic cycle of the Paleo-Tethys Orogen in southwest China (II): Insights from zircon ages of ophiolites, arc/back-arc assemblages and within-plate igneous rocks and generation of the Emeishan CFB province

(2009) Ping Jian et al.   LITHOS

Can Earth's rotation and tidal despinning drive plate tectonics?

(2009) Federica Riguzzi et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Upper plate controls on deep subduction, trench migrations and deformations at convergent margins

(2009) F.A. Capitanio et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Discovery of high-pressure granulite-facies metamorphism in northern Vietnam: Constraints on the Permo-Triassic Indochinese continental collision tectonics

(2008) Nobuhiko Nakano et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Early Paleozoic to Devonian multiple-accretionary model for the Qilian Shan, NW China

(2008) Wenjiao Xiao et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Collision zone metamorphism in Vietnam and adjacent South-eastern Asia: Proposition for Trans Vietnam Orogenic Belt

(2008) Yasuhito OSANAI et al.   Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

Parallel Tethyan sutures in mainland Southeast Asia: New insights for Palaeo-Tethys closure and implications for the Indosinian orogeny

(2007) Masatoshi Sone et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Was the Indosinian orogeny a Triassic mountain building or a thermotectonic reactivation event?

(2007) Andrew Carter et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Arc-like volcanic rocks from the southern Lancangjiang zone, SW China: Geochronological and geochemical constraints on their petrogenesis and tectonic implications

(2007) Touping Peng et al.   LITHOS

Global record of 1600–700Ma Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs): Implications for the reconstruction of the proposed Nuna (Columbia) and Rodinia supercontinents

(2007) R.E. Ernst et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis

(2007) Z.X. Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

An alternative plate tectonic model for the Palaeozoic–Early Mesozoic Palaeotethyan evolution of Southeast Asia (Northern Thailand–Burma)

(2007) O.M. Ferrari et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS