Papers about the Himalaya and Tibet:
3. Bird, P. [1976] Thermal and mechanical evolution of continental convergence zones: Zagros and Himalaya, Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 423 pages. [ 12-MB PDF file ]
4. Bird, P., and M. N. Toksoz (1977) Strong attenuation of Rayleigh waves in Tibet, Nature, 266, 161-163.
5. Toksoz, M. N., and P. Bird (1977) Modeling of temperatures in continental convergence zones, Tectonophysics, 41, 181-193.
7. Bird, P. (1978a) Initiation of intracontinental subduction in the Himalaya, J. Geophys. Res., 83, 4975-4987.
14. Bird, P. (1982) Reply re: Initiation of intracontinental subduction in the Himalaya, J. Geophys. Res., 86, 9323-9324.
27. Bird, P. (1991) Lateral extrusion of lower crust from under high topography, in the isostatic limit, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 10,275- 10,286.
38. Kong, X., and P. Bird (1996) Neotectonics of Asia: Thin-shell finite- element models with faults, in: An Yin and T. M. Harrison (editors), The Tectonic Evolution of Asia, Cambridge University Press, p. 18-34.
56. Liu, Z., and P. Bird [2008] Kinematic modelling of neotectonics in the Persia-Tibet-Burma orogen, Geophys. J. Int., 172(2), 779-797 + 3 digital appendices, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03640.x.