No crustal flow east of Tibet

Publication of the LGL-TPE in the journal Tectonophysics on April 28, 2023. Communication of the CNRS-INSU on June 12, 2023. A research team has recently published a study on the mechanism of crustal flow in the journal Tectonophysics . They have reconstructed the evolution of the Wenchuan fault, located to the east of Tibet, over the last thirty million years. Their work calls into question the crustal flow mechanism in this emblematic zone. The Longmen Shan, eastern and steepest margin of the Tibetan plateau, is often seen as the archetype example of an orogenic system built by crustal channel flow extrusion since the Miocene. This model is controversial as other studies propose an accretionary prism mechanism.