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The Tibetan plateau is being compressed between the Indian subcontinent to the south and the solid wall of the North China block, new research indicates
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), June, 2005
The Tibetan plateau is being compressed between the Indian subcontinent to the south and the solid wall of the North China block, new research indicates. As a result, Tibet is splitting much like an orange squeezed by a vise. 'We're in a place where continents are slamming against each other. Instead of Tibet crumpling like an accordion, we see these rift valleys.
The rifts are from the east-west stretching of the plateau," maintains Paul Kapp, assistant professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
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