Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

The Hindu Kush slab break-off as revealed by deep structure and crustal deformation

  • Sofia-Katerina Kufner,
  • Najibullah Kakar,
  • Maximiliano Bezada,
  • Wasja Bloch,
  • Sabrina Metzger,
  • Xiaohui Yuan,
  • James Mechie,
  • Lothar Ratschbacher,
  • Shokhruhk Murodkulov,
  • Zhiguo Deng,
  • Bernd Schurr

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21760-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Here, the authors document active slab break-off and the crustal response during continental collision under the Hindu Kush, a rarely observed process since it happens over geologically short time spans.