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Continental Tectonics

Continental Tectonics is a subdiscipline of Regional Tectonics that investigates the large-scale deformation, structural evolution, and geodynamic processes affecting continental lithosphere, distinguished by its focus on intraplate tectonic regimes, crustal thickening, and the development of continental mountain belts and rift systems.

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Parents

Publications

8.1K

Geologic Evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen

An Yin, T. Mark Harrison · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 2000 · 6K citations

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Tectonic discrimination of granitoids

P.D. Maniar, Philip M. Piccoli · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 1989 · 4.6K citations

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Cenozoic Tectonics of Asia: Effects of a Continental Collision: Features of recent continental tectonics in Asia can be interpreted as results of the India-Eurasia collision

Péter Molnár, P. Tapponnier · Science · 1975 · 4.5K citations

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Evolution of the Altaid tectonic collage and Palaeozoic crustal growth in Eurasia

A. M. Celâl Şengör, Boris A. Natal’in · Nature · 1993 · 3.8K citations

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Propagating extrusion tectonics in Asia: New insights from simple experiments with plasticine

P. Tapponnier, G. Peltzer, A. Y. Le Dain et al. · Geology · 1982 · 2.9K citations

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Authors

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  1. SC
    Sierd Cloetingh

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    63 publications · 4.6K citations

    40

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  2. MS
    M. Santosh

    China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China

    50 publications · 5K citations

    34

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  3. CF
    Claudio Faccenna

    Roma Tre University, Italy

    27 publications · 4.1K citations

    25

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  4. MF
    Michel Faure

    Université d'Orléans, France

    31 publications · 2.3K citations

    25

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  5. JD
    John Dewey

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    27 publications · 10.4K citations

    25

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Institutions

2.4K

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    100 h-index

    1.5K publications

    99.6K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    84 h-index

    842 publications

    71.1K citations

  3. Institute of Geology and Geophysics

    Beijing, China

    69 h-index

    495 publications

    42.9K citations

  4. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    66 h-index

    290 publications

    23.4K citations

  5. Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

    Beijing, China

    65 h-index

    453 publications

    38.8K citations

  6. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    61 h-index

    161 publications

    14K citations

  7. Université de Montpellier

    Montpellier, France

    57 h-index

    214 publications

    19.9K citations

  8. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

    Sparkill, United States

    56 h-index

    151 publications

    21.3K citations

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Venues

  1. Tectonophysics

    654 publications · 49.5K citations

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  2. Tectonics

    427 publications · 41.5K citations

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  3. Geological Society London Special Publications

    370 publications · 31K citations

    92

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  4. Geology

    305 publications · 30.6K citations

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  5. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 224 publications · 32.2K citations

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