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简介:ThetectonicactivitiesoccurringsincetheCenozoicinthenorthernpartoftheQinghai-TibetPlateau(theregionfromtheEastKunlunMountainstotheTanggulaMountains)wereprobablycausedbytheintenseintraplatedeformationpropagationafterthecollisionbe-tweentheIndianplateandtheEurasianplate.Theirmainexpressionsincludethesubstantialup-liftingoftheplateau,alternationofhorizontalextensionandcompressionundertheverticalgreatestprincipalstressσ1,occurrenceofrift-typevolcanicactivity,formationofthebasin-rangesystem,andsuccessiveeastwardextrusionofblocksresultingfromlarge-scalestrike-slipfaulting.Geophysicalexplorationandexperimentshaverevealedthatthereexistclose-lyalternatinghorizontalhigh-velocityandlow-velocitylayersaswellaslithosphericfaultsofaleft-lateralstrike-slipsenseinthelowerpartofthelithosphere(thelowercrustandlithosphericmantle,60-120kmdeep).Basedonanintegratedstudyofthegeological-geophysicaldataavail-able,theauthorshaveproposedamodelofdeep-seatedmantlediapirandtheassociatedtectonophysicalprocessasthedynamicsourcefortheupliftofthenorthernpartoftheQinghai-TibetPlateau.