Allen P A, Allen J R. 1990. Basin Analysis, Principles and Applications. London. Blackwell Scientific Publications, 445p.
[6]
Burchfiel B C, Molnar P, Zhao Z Y, Kuangyi L, Wang S J, Huang M M, Sutter J. 1989. Geology of the Ulugh Muztagh area, northern Tibet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 94: 57-70.
[7]
Chang Chengfa, Chen Nansheng, M. P. Coward, Deng Wanming J. F. Dewey, A. Gansser, N. B. W. Hrris, Jin Chengwei, W. S. F. Kidd, M. R. Leeder, Li Huan, Lin Jinlu, Liu Chengjie, Mei Houjun, P. Molnar, Pan Yun, Pan Yusheng, J. A. Pearce, R. M. Shackleton, A. B. Smith, Sun Yiyin, M. Ward, D. R. Watts, Xu Juntao, Xu Ronghua, Yin Jixiang, Zhang Yuquan, 1986. Preliminary conclusions of the Royal Society and Academia Sinica 1985, geotraverse of Tibet. Reprinted from Nature, 323(6088),501-507.
[8]
Chung Sunlin, Lo Chinghua, Lee Tungyi, Zhang Yuquan, Xie Yingwen, Li Xianhua, Wang Kuolung, Wang Peiling. 1998. Diachronous uplift of the Tibetan plateau starting 40 Myr ago. Letters to Nature, 394 (20), 769-773.
[9]
Cui Junwen. 1997b. Tectonic evolution of the Himalayan collision belt. Acta Geologica Sinica, 71(2) : 133-143.
[10]
Cui Junwen. 2000. Meso--Cenozoic deformation in the western Qilian terrain and Qaidam basin, NW, China: overstep thrust sequences. Journal of the Geological Society of China, 143 (1), 94-106.
[11]
Matte Ph, Tapponnier P, Arnaud N, Bourjot L, Avouac J. P. , Vidal Ph, Qing L, Yusheng P, Yi W. 1996. Tectonics of Western Tibet, between the Tarim and the Indus. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 142: 311-330.
[12]
Metivier F, Gaudemer Y, Tapponnier P, Meyer B. 1998. Northeastward growth of the Tibet plateau deduced from balanced reconstruction of two depositional areas: The Qaidam and Hexi Corridor basins, China. Tectonics, 17(6) : 823-842.
[13]
Pichon X L, M Fournier, M, Jolivet L. 1992. Kinematics, topography, shortening, and extrusion in the India- Eurasia collision, tectonics, 11(6): 1085-1098.
[14]
Tapponnier P, Peltzer G, Armijo R. 1986. On the mechanics of the collision between India and Asia. In Coward. M P, Ries A C eds. collision tectonics, Geo. Soc. Spec. Publ. London, 19 : 115- 157.
[15]
Tapponnier P, Meyer B, Avouac J P, Peltzer G, Gaudemar Y, Guo Shunmin, Xiang Hongfa, Yin Kelun, Chen Zhitai, Cai Shuahua, Dai Guagang. 1990. Active thrusting and folding in the Qilian Shan, and decoupling between upper crust and mantle in northeastern Tibet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 97:382 -403.
[16]
Tian Zhaiyi, Zhang Qingchun. 1997. Rock Facies--Paleogeography and Petroleum of Petroleum- bearing Basins of China. Beijing: Geological Publishing House, 260. (in Chinese with English abstract).
[17]
Turner S, Hawkesworth C, Liu J, Rogers N, Kelley S, Calsteren P V. 1993. Timing of Tibetan uplift constrained by analysis of volcanic rocks. Nature, 364(1) : 50-53.
[18]
Wang Lianjie, Cui Junwen, Wu Hongling, Zhang Lirong, Wang Wei. 1998. Lithospheric Tectonic Stress Field in Northern Border in Qinghai -- Tibet Plateau. Beijing : Metallurgical Industry Press (in Chinese).
[19]
Wu Cailai, Yang Jingsui, Li Haibing, Shi Rendeng, Men Fancong. 2001. Pyroxenite xenolith in the volcanic rocks from North Tibet. Acta Geoscientia Sinica. 22 (1) : 61 - 66 (in Chinese with English abstract).
[20]
Xu Z Q, Yang J S, Zhang J X, Jiang M, Li H B, Cui J W. 1999. A comparison between the tectonic units on the two sides of the Altun sinistral strike- slip fault and the mechanism of lithospheric shearing. Acta Geol. Sin. , 73 (2): 193- 205 (in Chinese with English abstract).
Bott M H P. 1980. Mechanism of subsidence at passive continental margins. In : Bally A W, Bender P L, Mcgetchin T R, Walcott R I eds. Dynamics of Plate Interiors. Geological Society of American Boulder, Colorado, 27-36.
[27]
Chung Sunlin, Lo Chinghua, Lee Tungyi, Zhang Yuquan, Xie Yingwen, Li Xianhua, Wang Kuolung, Wang Peiling. 1998. Diachronous uplift of the Tibetan plateau starting 40 Myr ago. Letters to Nature, 394 (20), 769-773.
[28]
Cui Junwen, Tang Zhemin, Deng Jinfu, Yue Yongjun,Li Jixiang, Lai Shaocong. 1997a. Early Paleozoic Plate Tectonic Regime in the Altun Mountains. Proc, 30th Int\\'l Geol. Congr, 7, 59-74.
[29]
Cui Junwen, Tang Zhemin, Deng Jinfu, Yue Yongjun, Meng Lingshun, Yu Qinfan, 1999, Altun Fault System, Beijing: Geological Publishing House, 249 (in Chinese with English abstract).
[30]
Le Fort P. 1986. Metamorphism and magmatism during the Himalayan collision. In.. Coward M P, Ries A C. eds, collision tectonics, Geo. Soc. Spec. Publ. London, 19, 159-172.
[31]
Maluski H, Matte, PH Brunel M, Xiao Xusheng. 1998. Argon 39--argon 40 dating of metamorphic and plutonic events in the north and high Himalaya belts (southern Tibet --China). Tectonics, 7 (2) : 299-326.
[32]
Molnar P, Burchfiel B C, Zhao Ziyun, Uangyi L K, Wang Shuji, Huang Minmin. 1987. Geological evolution of Northern Tibet:results of an expedition to Ulugh Muztagh, Science, 235, 299-304.
[33]
Nicolas A, Poivier J P. 1976. Crystalline Plasticity and Solid State Flow in Metamorphic Rocks. John Wiley and Sons. 174- 177.
[34]
Ranalli G. 1987. Rhelogy of the Earth, Deformation and Flow Processes in Geophysics and Geodynamics. Boston Allen Unwtn, London. Sydney, Wellington.
[35]
Sobel E R, Arnaud N. 1999. A possible middle Paleozoic suture in the Altyn Tagh, NW China. Tectonics, 18 (1) : 64- 74.
[36]
Yang J S, Xu Z Q, Li H B, Wu C L, Zhang J X, Shi R D. 2000. A Caledonian convergent border along the southern margin of the Qilian terrane, NW China: Evidence from eclogite, garnet-peridotite, ophiolite, and S--type granite. J. Geol. Soc. China, 42, 142-160.
[37]
Zhang J X, Zhang Z M, Xu Z Q, Yang J S, Cui J W. 2001. The ages of U--Pb and Sm--Nb for eclogite from the western segment of the Altyn Tagh tectonic belt Chinese Science Bulletin,44 (22): 2256-2259.
