Arid and semi arid northern China holds some of the world's most significant sand sea and
loess deposits. In particular, arguably the most important late Cenozoic wind-blown dust …

Type and amount of sediment generation are intimately connected to tectonic and climatic
processes active at the earth's surface today as well as throughout the geologic past. Detrital …

The onset of mountain building along margins of the Tibetan Plateau provides a key
constraint on the processes by which the high topography in Eurasia formed. Although …

In a recent review published in this journal, Coutts et al.(2019) compared nine different ways
to estimate the maximum depositional age (MDA) of siliclastic rocks by means of detrital …

Since the development of SIMS and LA-ICP-MS technologies in the 1980s and 1990s,
single grain U–Pb dating of detrital zircon has quickly become the most popular technique …

The field of (U-Th)/He geochronology and thermochronology has grown enormously over
the past∼ 25 years. The tool is applicable across much of geologic time, new (U-Th)/He …

Abstract The Qilian Shan, at the northeastern frontier of the Tibetan Plateau, is a key area for
studying the expansion mechanism of the Tibetan Plateau. Although previous …

Estimating shortening in collision belts is critical to reconstruct past plate motions. Balanced
cross‐section techniques are efficient in external domains but lack resolution in the …

A transformative advance in Earth science is the development of low‐temperature
thermochronometry to date Earth surface processes or quantify the thermal evolution of …

Abstract The Fish Canyon Tuff (FCT) has served as an important source for geochronology
standards, particularly for fission track, K–Ar and (40 Ar/39 Ar) dating, even though efforts to …