The progress in the study of continental dynamics of the Xizang Plateau

Based on the previously research, the research group of Key Laboratory of Continental Tectonics and Dynamics has achieved lots of great progress in the study of the continental dynamics of the Xizang Plateau, especially in the evolution of Tethys and the growth of the Xizang Plateau during the past decade. These achievements can be summarized as follows:(1) The Hypothesis on Xizang Plateau as a orogenic plateau was proposed; (2) the reconstruction of the tectonic framework and the Xizang-Tethys system; (3) the discovery of in situ diamond and deep mantle-derived mineral group in the ophiolites distributed along the Neotethyan suture zone; (4) the understanding of the subduction mechanism of the Neotethy oceanic basins; (5) the role of magmatism formed in the early stage of the Indo-Asian collision for the exhumation of Himalaya; (6) the establishment of the 3D models of the collisional orogeny and exhumation of the Himalaya; (7) the new proposal on the extrusion of the SE Xizang Plateau:‘crustal bending and decouple’; (8) the subduction-related, collision-related and continental gneiss domes with Xizang Plateau; (9) the tectonic setting and the Wenchuan Earthquake mechanism on the eastern margin of the Xizang Plateau; (10) Numerical modeling of the Indo-Asian collisional process. This paper aims to communicate with and stimulate interest among global geologists to make further development in the continental dynamics of the Xizang Plateau.