Crustal Flows beneath the Eastern Tibetan Plateau Revealed by Magnetotelluric Observations

The ongoing collision of the Indian and Asian continents has created the Himalayan and Tibetan plateau through a range of deformation processes that include crustal thickening, delamination, lateral extrusion and crustal flow. A debate continues as to which of these processes are most significant in terms of the overall mass balance of this continent-continent collision. In eastern Tibet GPS data show large-scale motion of the