Mid-Miocene Transition from Rigid to Soft Plate Tectonics in the Northern Tibetan Plateau: A Lookback after 20 Years of Tests


Yongjun Yue1, Bradley Ritts2, Stephan A Graham2, Juhn G Liou3, Cari L Johnson4, Jeremy K Hourigan5, Guangsheng Zhuang6, Andrew D. D. Hanson7 and Zhicheng Zhang8, (1)Chevron Corporation Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, United States, (5)UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)Department of Geology & Geophysics, College of Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (7)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (8)Peking University, Beijing, China