The research team identified that at least 30% of continental crust was lost to the mantle during the formation of the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau and Zagros Mountains (potentially up to 64% for the ...

It's difficult to imagine a process more gradual than continental drift ... simply drained away as the Colorado Plateau rose thousands of feet. According to this hypothesis, climates in many ...

The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau is one of the most significant global geological events during the Cenozoic, and thus provides a natural laboratory for testing and validating major hypotheses ...