Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Linking deeply-sourced volatile emissions to plateau growth dynamics in southeastern Tibetan Plateau

  • Maoliang Zhang,
  • Zhengfu Guo,
  • Sheng Xu,
  • Peter H. Barry,
  • Yuji Sano,
  • Lihong Zhang,
  • Sæmundur A. Halldórsson,
  • Ai-Ti Chen,
  • Zhihui Cheng,
  • Cong-Qiang Liu,
  • Si-Liang Li,
  • Yun-Chao Lang,
  • Guodong Zheng,
  • Zhongping Li,
  • Liwu Li,
  • Ying Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24415-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Deeply-sourced volatiles are releasing from orogenic plateau regions, providing windows to plateau growth dynamics occurring at variable depths. Here the authors show that mantle-derived volatiles reveal the involvement of mantle dynamics in southeastward growth of the Tibetan Plateau.