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Valli F, Leloup P H, Paquette J-L, Arnaud N, Li H, Tapponnier P, Lacassin R, Guillot S, Liu D Y, Deloule E et al..  2008.  New U-Th/Pb constraints on timing of shearing and long-term slip-rate on the Karakorum fault. Tectonics. 27

Li H, Valli F, Liu D Y, Xu Z, Arnaud N, Tapponnier P, Lacassin R, Chen S Y, Qi X X.  2007.  Initial movement of the Karakorum Fault in western Tibet: constraints from SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircons. Chinese Science Bulletin. 52:1089-1100.

Valli F, Arnaud N, Leloup P H, Sobel ER, Mahéo G, Lacassin R, Guillot S, Li H, Tapponnier P, Xu Z.  2007.  Twenty million years of continuous deformation along the Karakorum fault, western Tibet: A thermochronological analysis. Tectonics. 26

Mériaux A-S, Tapponnier P, Ryerson FJ, Xu X, King GCP, Van der Woerd J, Finkel RC, Li H, Caffee MW, Xu Z et al..  2005.  The Aksay segment of the northern Altyn Tagh fault: Tectonic geomorphology, landscape evolution, and Holocene slip rate. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 110

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Roger F, Arnaud N, Gilder S, Tapponnier P, Jolivet M, Brunel M, Malavieille J, Xu Z, Yang J.  2003.  Geochronological and geochemical constraints on Mesozoic suturing in east central Tibet. Tectonics. 22

Li H, Yang J, Xu Z, Wu C, Wan Y, Shi R, Liou JG, Tapponnier P, Ireland TR.  2002.  Geological and chronological evidence of Indo-Chinese strike-slip movement in the Altyn Tagh fault zone. Chinese Science Bulletin. 47:27-32.

Tapponnier P, Xu Z, Roger F, Meyer B, Arnaud N, Wittlinger G.  2001.  Geology - Oblique stepwise rise and growth of the Tibet plateau. Science. 294:1671-1677.

Jolivet M, Brunel M, Seward D, Xu Z, Yang J, Roger F, Tapponnier P, Malavieille J, Arnaud N, Wu C.  2001.  Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the northern edge of the Tibetan plateau: fission-track constraints. Tectonophysics. 343:111-134.

Van der Woerd J, Xu X, Li H, Tapponnier P, Meyer B, Ryerson FJ, Mériaux A-S, Xu Z.  2001.  Rapid active thrusting along the northwestern range front of the Tanghe Nan Shan (western Gansu, China). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 106:30475-30504.

Roger F, Tapponnier P, Arnaud N, Schärer U, Brunel M, Xu Z.  2000.  An Eocene magmatic belt across central Tibet: mantle subduction triggered by the Indian collision? Terra Nova. 12:102-108.

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