Journal
TECTONICS
Volume 35, Issue 2, Pages 315-338Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015TC003974
Keywords
Pamir salient; Cenozoic tectonics; U-Pb ages; provenance; Tarim Basin
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- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB03020500]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CB956400]
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [41290251, 41272203]
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The Pamir plateau forms a prominent tectonic salient that marks the western end of the Himalayan orogen containing several terranes that were accreted to Eurasia from the Late Paleozoic to Cenozoic. A detailed knowledge of the tectonic evolution of the Pamir salient during the Cenozoic is important for our understanding of the intracontinental deformation in the western Himalaya. Although the tectonic evolution of the Pamir salient has long been studied, the timing of collision between the Indian Plate and the Kohistan-Ladakh arc is still a matter of debate. We present new U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons, magnetic fabrics, and stable isotopes from the foreland basin on the northeastern margin of the Pamir that indicate a change in sediment provenance started at about 47Ma. Sediments in the southwest Tarim Basin were partially derived from the uplifted and eroded Karakoram and Kohistan terranes created by the collision between the Indian Plate and the Kohistan-Ladakh arc at circa 47Ma, as a result of northward thrusting and propagation of the Indian Plate under Eurasia.
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