Two-stage exhumation, uplift, and basinward propagation of the Tian Shan during the late Cenozoic

Y Jiang, H Lu, R Yang, L Pang, R Jiao, Y Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
As a typical intracontinental orogenic belt, the Tian Shan range is a natural lab for the
understanding of ongoing intraplate deformation and related geodynamic mechanisms …

Cenozoic exhumation of the Tianshan as constrained by regional low-temperature thermochronology

Y Wang, J Zhang, X Huang, Z Wang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The Tianshan range, located in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB),
represents an excellent natural laboratory for investigating intracontinental deformation. The …

Precambrian tectonic evolution of the Tarim Block, NW China: new geochronological insights from the Quruqtagh domain

LS Shu, XL Deng, WB Zhu, DS Ma, WJ **ao - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Tarim Block is an important tectonic unit to understand the Proterozoic tectonic
framework of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and the supercontinent Rodinia. The granitic …

Episodic long‐term exhumation of the Tianshan Orogenic Belt: New insights from multiple low‐temperature thermochronometers

J Yin, Y Wang, KV Hodges, W **ao, SN Thomson… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Tianshan orogenic belt, part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, offers an opportunity to
examine the complexities of an orogenic system that records long‐term intracontinental …

Thermo-tectonic history of the Issyk-Kul basement (Kyrgyz northern Tien Shan, central Asia)

J De Grave, S Glorie, MM Buslov, DF Stockli… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
Lake Issyk-Kul occupies a large Late Mesozoic–Cenozoic intramontane basin between the
mountain ranges of the Northern Kyrgyz Tien Shan. These ranges are often composed of …

Permian flood basalts from the Tarim Basin, Northwest China: SHRIMP zircon U–Pb dating and geochemical characteristics

X Yu, SF Yang, HL Chen, ZQ Chen, ZL Li, GE Batt… - Gondwana …, 2011 - Elsevier
This study documents the Permian basalts from the Tarim large igneous province, northwest
China. Detailed field work has led to recognition of eight basalt units (BU) in the Permian …

Neoproterozoic mafic-ultramafic layered intrusion in Quruqtagh of northeastern Tarim Block, NW China: two phases of mafic igneous activity with different mantle …

CL Zhang, DS Yang, HY Wang, Y Takahashi… - Gondwana Research, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper we report zircon U–Pb age, chemical compositions of rock-forming minerals,
and whole-rock elemental and Sr–Nd isotopic data for the No. II mafic-ultramafic intrusive …

Zircon U–Pb chronology and Hf isotope of the **ngxingxia granodiorite from the Central Tianshan zone (NW China): implications for the tectonic evolution of the …

RX Lei, CZ Wu, LX Gu, ZZ Zhang, GX Chi, YH Jiang - Gondwana Research, 2011 - Elsevier
The Central Tianshan zone is located between the Turpan–Hami and Tarim blocks and
played a pivotal role in crustal evolution and collisional tectonics of the southern Altaids (or …

Mesozoic tectonic and topographic evolution of Central Asia and Tibet: a preliminary synthesis

M Jolivet - 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract During the Late Palaeozoic–Mesozoic, Central Asia and Tibet were affected by
several geodynamic episodes that induced either large-scale compression or widespread …

Permian basaltic rocks in the Tarim basin, NW China: implications for plume–lithosphere interaction

Y Zhang, J Liu, Z Guo - Gondwana Research, 2010 - Elsevier
There are large areas of Permian basaltic rocks in the Tarim basin (PBRT) in northwestern
China. Precise Ar–Ar dating of these rocks revealed an eruption age span of 262 to 285Ma …