Asthenosphere–lithosphere dynamic responses to Tethyan plate collisions (IGCP-430)

Crustal contamination of Late Neogene basalts in the Dien Bien Phu Basin, NW Vietnam: Some insights from petrological and geochronological studies

“…Lithospheric extension alone is not the only cause of mantle melting (Flower et al, 2004). It has recently been accepted that lateral displacement of asthenospheric mantle during and after continental plate collisions in the Tethyan realm are responsible for widespread, nonplume intracontinental magmatism in southeastern Asia (cf.…”

“…It has recently been accepted that lateral displacement of asthenospheric mantle during and after continental plate collisions in the Tethyan realm are responsible for widespread, nonplume intracontinental magmatism in southeastern Asia (cf. Flower and Coban, 2002;Flower et al, 2004).…”

“…According to Flower et al (1998), collision-induced extrusion of the asthenospheric mantle was the driving force of both lithosphere escape and marginal basin opening, providing as well the thermal energy required for extension-related basalt magmatism (cf. also Flower and Coban, 2002;Flower et al, 2004).…”