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Science 19 October 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5542, p. 473
DOI: 10.1126/science.294.5542.473a
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The major continent-to-continent collision of India into Eurasia has created the high-standing Tibetan plateau, major fault zones, and a natural laboratory for a crustal deformation study. Wang et al. (p. 574) combine 10 years of geodetic data into a comprehensive kinematic model of crustal motion throughout China. They find that 90% of the deformation is taken up in crustal shortening to create the plateau and most of the remaining 10% is taken up by eastward extrusion and rotation of the crust into southeastern China.




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