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Lhasa block and bordering sutures— a continuation of a 500-km Moho traverse through Tibet

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A north–south wide-angle fan-profile through the Yarlung Zangbo suture, across the Lhasa block and through the Bangong-Nujiang suture shows several significant and sharp changes in crustal thickness. Both sutures appear as vertical 20-km steps in the Moho and may have been the loci for eastward strike-slip motion of the Tibetan lithosphere.

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  1. Laboratoire d'Etude Géophysique des Structures Profondes, associé au CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, Tour 14, 75230, Paris, Cedex 05, France

    Alfred Hirn, Alexandre Nercessian, Martine Sapin & Georges Jobert

  2. Department of Geophysics, Institute of Geology, Changchun, Ministry of Geology, China

    Xu Zhong Xin & Gao En Yuan

  3. Geophysical Team 562, Ministry of Geology, Beijing, China

    Lu De Yuan

  4. Institute of Geophysics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China

    Teng Ji Wen

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Hirn, A., Nercessian, A., Sapin, M. et al. Lhasa block and bordering sutures— a continuation of a 500-km Moho traverse through Tibet. Nature 307, 25–27 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/307025a0

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