Topographic map of the Tibetan Plateau. Major rifts in south-central Tibet are labeled. The arrow indicates the Indian plate motion. The circles are intermediate-depth earthquakes (>=70 km, unusually ...

LANZHOU－Chinese researchers recently released a new map to improve engineering projects and ecosystem management on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as "the roof of the world". The map details ...

Geoscientists have long puzzled over the mechanism that created the Tibetan Plateau, but a new study finds that the landform's history may be controlled primarily by the strength of the tectonic ...

Southwest China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the major source of the country's largest rivers, has seen its glaciers shrink rapidly over the past 30 years, a national research institute revealed yesterday ...

Figure 1: Maps of western Sichuan. Figure 2: Map views of wave speed variation in crust and mantle. Figure 4: 3D perspectives of lithospheric shear-wave speed variations in relation to surface ...

Yao Tandong, leader of the expedition team and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduces the major achievements about the Second Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Scientific Expedition and ...

This study is led by Prof. Guangsheng Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences) and Prof. Hongrui Ren (Department of Geomatics, Taiyuan University of ...

A research team led by Prof. Wu Qingbai from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified important non-temperature environmental ...

The geo-ecological conditions of Xizang (Tibet) are very complicated, and the horizontal zonation of vegetation is closely correlated with the vertical. The horizontal differentiation of the ...