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    The Lhasa terrane is a terrane, or fragment of crustal material, sutured to the Eurasian Plate during the Cretaceous that forms present-day southern Tibet...
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    correspond to the basin of the Lhasa River, a major tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. It lies on the Lhasa terrane, the last unit of crust to accrete...
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  • Terrane Western Central Range Terrane Hsuehshan Range Terrane Western Foothills Terrane Coastal Plain Terrane Tibet Lhasa Terrane Qiangtang Terrane Xigaze...
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    limit between it and the Songpan-Ganzi terrane. During the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, the Lhasa terrane merged with its southern margin along...
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    Gangdese volcanic arc is a major geological structure in the south of the Lhasa terrane in Tibet, to the north of the Himalayas. The batholith formed around...
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    Late Jurassic. Today the Bangong suture separates the Lhasa terrane from the Qiangtang terrane. The present remains of Cimmeria, as a result of the massive...
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    Transhimalaya which includes Lhasa Terrane. In the north, Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone separates Transhimalaya from the Qiangtang terrane. In the south, Indus-Yarlung...
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    peninsula in EuropePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Lhasa terrane – Fragment of crustal material that forms present-day southern Tibet...
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  • Lhasa River, a river of Tibet Lhasa terrane, a geologic terrain in Tibet Lhasa Nunatak, a rock ridge in Antarctica 7859 Lhasa, a minor planet LHASA,...
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    broke into what they call "Argopelago" during Late Triassic rifting of Lhasa terrane from the Gondwana margin. Mount Victoria Land block rifted from Gondwana...
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    orientation. Located in central Tibet between the Lhasa (southern block) and Qiangtang (northern block) terranes, it is a discontinuous belt of ophiolites and...
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    between the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes ceased, and during the Early Cretaceous, the Lhasa terrane began underthrusting beneath the Qiangtang terrane. Traces...
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    north. Nowadays, Iran, Afghanistan and Tibet are partly made up of these terranes. In the Norian (210 Ma), a major rifting episode split Gondwana in two...
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    continental terrane suggests that it could have been an intraoceanic island arc in the past, locating in between the Asian continental margin (Lhasa terrane) and...
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    occurred, signifying the first major glacial maximum of the LPIA. The Lhasa terrane became glaciated during this stage of the Carboniferous. A relatively...
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  • Himalaya Appinite-cumulates are found in the Gangdese Batholith of the Lhasa Terrane. These appinites formed during the Upper Triassic and are 220 to 213...
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    Tethyan (Tibetan) Himalayas, the leading edge of Greater India, with the Lhasa Terrane of Tibet (southern Eurasian margin), along the Indus-Yarling-Zangbo...
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  • Mesoproterozoic terrane on the southern margin of the Bangweulu Block in Zambia Ivrea zone – Tectonic terrane in the Italian Alps Lhasa terrane – Fragment...
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  • with the Indochina terrane in the Triassic. It extends from Malaysia, through peninsular Thailand, Myanmar, West Yunnan, to Lhasa. Shan–Thai is c. 4,000 km...
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    known as the Matterhorn of the East Nyenchen Tanglha. Transhimalaya Lhasa terrane Karakoram fault system Geology of the Himalaya The Trans-Himalaya, named...
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    Caspian Sea; the Afghan Terrane; the Karakorum Terrane in northern Pakistan; and the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes in Tibet. The Permian–Triassic widening of...
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  • Costa Rica, Panama Middle America Trench Caribbean Plate Cocos Plate Gangdese batholith Tibet, China No longer existent Lhasa terrane Neotethyan ocean...
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    of the Lhasa Terrane and to the south of Jang Co in the north of the terrane, but fossiliferous Lower Carboniferous has been found in the terrane only in...
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    assemblage from the Kailas Formation in western part of the southern Lhasa terrane, and a study on its implications for inferring the elevation history...
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    Amato J.M.; Pavlis T.L. (2010). "Detrital zircon ages from the Chugach Terrane, southern Alaska, reveal multiple episodes of accretion and erosion in...
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  • (2020). "Early Triassic Pachycladina fauna newly found in the southern Lhasa Terrane of Tibet and its palaeogeographic implications". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology...
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    of the Himalaya. The Indus Suture Zone is the suture zone with the Lhasa terrane to the north. It contains the ophiolites and island arc related igneous...
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    of Asia, the Cathaysian terranes – Indochina, North China, and South China – and Cimmerian terranes – Sibumasu, Qiangtang, Lhasa, Afghanistan, Iran, and...
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  • assemblage from the Kailas Formation in western part of the southern Lhasa terrane, and a study on its implications for inferring the elevation history...
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    interchange across Tibet. The age of east–west grabens in the Lhasa and Himalaya terranes suggests that the plateau's elevation was close to its modern...
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