B. C. Burchfiel

TL;DR: The Longmen Shan region can be divided into two major tectonic elements: (1) an autochthon/parautochthons which underlies the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau, the Sichuan Basin, and the eastern SICHuan fold-and-thrust belt as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a regional compilation of the drainage history in southeastern Tibet suggests that modern rivers draining the plateau margin were once tributaries to a single, southward flowing system which drained into the South China Sea.

TL;DR: The age of surface uplift in southeastern Tibet is currently unknown, but the initiation of major river incision can be used as a proxy for the timing of initial uplift as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple elastic model suggests that these normal faults may have formed during gravitational collapse of the Miocene topographic front between India and Tibet, and that the southward motion of a wedge of crustal rocks bounded above by gently north-dipping normal faults and below by thrust faults that probably dip north.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present and interpret Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements of crustal motions for the period 1991-1998 for a network encompassing the eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau and its foreland.