@article{c865f1eb024947f5ba638a25221e04a6,
title = "Tearing of Indian mantle lithosphere from high-resolution seismic images and its implications for lithosphere coupling in southern Tibet",
abstract = "What happened to the Indian mantle lithosphere (IML) during the Indian–Eurasian collision and what role it has played on the plateau growth are fundamental questions that remain unanswered. Here, we show clear images of the IML from high-resolution P and S tomography, which suggest that the subducted IML is torn into at least four pieces with different angles and northern limits, shallower and extending further in the west and east sides while steeper in the middle. Intermediate-depth earthquakes in the lower crust and mantle are located almost exclusively in the high-velocity (and presumably strong) part of the Indian lithosphere. The tearing of the IML provides a unified mechanism for Late Miocene and Quaternary rifting, current crustal deformation, and intermediate-depth earthquakes in the southern and central Tibetan Plateau and suggests that the deformations of the crust and the mantle lithosphere are strongly coupled.",
keywords = "Continental deformation, Indian mantle lithosphere, Pn tomography, Tearing, Tibetan Plateau",
author = "Jiangtao Li and Xiaodong Song",
note = "Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Critical and insightful reviews from the reviewers and the editor helped improve the manuscript greatly. The bulletin data were from the International Seismological Centre, the US Geological Survey, and the China Earthquake Administration. The digital seismograms of the temporary stations for the new Pn picks were from the Data Management Center of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology. We thank Min Chen for sharing their adjoint tomography model with us. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant EAR 1620595), the China National Special Fund for Earthquake Scientific Research in Public Interest (Grant 201508020), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 41774056). Funding Information: Critical and insightful reviews from the reviewers and the editor helped improve the manuscript greatly. The bulletin data were from the International Seismological Centre, the US Geological Survey, and the China Earthquake Administration. The digital seismograms of the temporary stations for the new Pn picks were from the Data Management Center of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology. We thank Min Chen for sharing their adjoint tomography model with us. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant EAR 1620595), the China National Special Fund for Earthquake Scientific Research in Public Interest (Grant 201508020), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 41774056). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 National Academy of Sciences. All Rights Reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = aug,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1073/pnas.1717258115",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "115",
pages = "8296--8300",
journal = "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America",
issn = "0027-8424",
publisher = "National Academy of Sciences",
number = "33",
}