Journal
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
Volume 575, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110460
Keywords
Magnetostratigraphy; Tectonic extension; Cosmogenic nuclide; Depositional history
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41472326, 41572178, 41802225]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFC1500101]
- Guangdong Province Introduced Innovative R&D Team of Geological Processes and Natural Disasters around the South China Sea [2016ZT06N331]
- Natural Science Foundation of Ningxia, China [2019AAC03133]
- Special Fund for Land and Resources Protection and Governance of Guangdong Province [2017201]
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The study of the Tongxin Basin in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau using magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic Be-10/Al-26 burial chronology reveals the tectonic evolution of the region. A broad basin existed from >21.7 to 16.5 million years ago, followed by WNW-trending faulting at around 16.5 million years which formed fault-bounded basins outward from the western margin.
The basin history of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau provides an ideal record for understanding the tectonic evolution of the plateau. We present high-resolution magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic Be-10/Al-26 burial chronology from the Tongxin Basin in the Arcuate Ranges area in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and reconstruct a long depositional history ranging from >21.7 to 4.6 Ma. Our new chronologic data suggest that a broad N-S-trending elongated basin existed during the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene (>21.7-16.5 Ma). WNW-trending faulting initiated at ca. 16.5 Ma and resulted in the formation of some fault-bounded basins outward from the western margin of the broad basin, but did not strongly affect the deposition within the basin region. Subsequently, intense northeastward compression elevated both WNW- and NWN-trending mountain ranges at ca. 7.6 Ma. Thrust-induced surface uplift elevated basin sediments and formed piggy-back basins in the hanging-wall blocks, reflecting the northeastward expansion of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau.
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