“…The Tibetan Plateau is the largest and highest plateau on Earth. However, when and how the Tibetan Plateau obtained its high elevation remains partially answered (Cyr et al, 2005;Deng & Jia, 2018;Hoke et al, 2014;Jia et al, 2015;Molnar et al, 1993;Tapponnier et al, 2001;Tang et al, 2017;Xu et al, 2013Xu et al, , 2015Wang et al, 2014;Yin & Harrison, 2000;Zuza et al, 2016). Many geodynamic models concerning the mechanism driving the surface uplift of Tibetan Plateau have been proposed in the past few decades: (1) homogeneous thickening of the Tibetan Plateau crust as a viscous sheet (England & Houseman, 1986), implying an overall surface uplift model; (2) underthrusting of Indian lithosphere beneath the Tibetan Plateau (DeCelles et al, 2002;Powell & Conaghan, 1973;van Hinsbergen et al, 2012;Zhao et al, 2011), predicting a gradual northward surface uplift model; (3) vertical inflation of the Tibetan Plateau crust by lower crustal channel flow (Clark & Royden, 2000;Royden et al, 1997), suggesting a eastward surface uplift model; (4) oblique subduction of different blocks of Asian lithosphere initiated in the Eocene but was younging northward, resulting in rigid block extrusion and a northward stepwise growth (Tapponnier et al, 2001); (5) pre-Cenozoic crust thickening by upper crust deformation (Murphy et al, 1997).…”