Using thermochronology to understand orogenic erosion

PW Reiners, MT Brandon - Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Erosion of orogenic mountain ranges exhumes deeply buried rocks and controls
weathering, climate, and sediment production and transport at a variety of scales. Erosion …

[HTML][HTML] Thermochronologic constraints on evolution of the Linglong Metamorphic Core Complex and implications for gold mineralization: A case study from the …

LQ Yang, J Deng, ZL Wang, L Zhang, RJ Goldfarb… - Ore Geology …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The NNE-trending Linglong Metamorphic Core Complex hosts the majority of the
gold deposits in the Jiaodong Peninsula of eastern China. Many of the deposits are hosted …

Pulsed rise and growth of the Tibetan Plateau to its northern margin since ca. 30 Ma

W Wang, P Zhang, CN Garzione, C Liu, Z Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
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 …

Expansion of the Tibetan Plateau during the Neogene

W Wang, W Zheng, P Zhang, Q Li, E Kirby… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The appearance of detritus shed from mountain ranges along the northern margin of the
Tibetan Plateau heralds the Cenozoic development of high topography. Current estimates of …

Progressive northward growth of the northern Qilian Shan–Hexi Corridor (northeastern Tibet) during the Cenozoic

D Zheng, W Wang, J Wan, D Yuan, C Liu… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The uplift processes of the Qilian Shan (northern Tibetan Plateau) play a central role in our
understanding of the dynamics of outward and upward growth of Tibet due to sustained …

Neogene expansion of the Qilian Shan, north Tibet: Implications for the dynamic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau

J Pang, J Yu, D Zheng, W Wang, Y Ma, Y Wang… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The Cenozoic growth of the Qilian Shan in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: A sedimentary archive from the Jiuxi Basin

W Wang, P Zhang, J Pang, C Garzione… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Sedimentary deposits in Tibetan Basins archive the spatial‐temporal patterns of the
deformation and surface uplift processes that created the area's high topography during the …

Late Oligocene–Early Miocene initiation of shortening in the Southwestern Chinese Tian Shan: implications for Neogene shortening rate variations

ER Sobel, J Chen, RV Heermance - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2006 - Elsevier
The Cenozoic Tian Shan is one of the preeminent examples of an intracontinental orogen.
However, there remains a significant controversy over when deformation related to the India …

Bias in detrital zircon geochronology and thermochronometry

MG Malusà, A Carter, M Limoncelli, IM Villa… - Chemical Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
Detrital studies that utilize zircon U–Pb geochronology and fission-track (FT)
thermochronometry are subject to a range of potential sources of bias that should be …

Late Cretaceous to early Eocene deformation in the northern Tibetan Plateau: Detrital apatite fission track evidence from northern Qaidam basin

X Jian, P Guan, W Zhang, H Liang, F Feng, L Fu - Gondwana Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Unraveling the growth of northern Tibet is crucial to understanding the geodynamic
processes of the India-Eurasia collision, evaluating plateau uplift models and reconstructing …