Early Cenozoic faulting of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin from apatite (U-Th)/He ages

Details Early Cenozoic faulting of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin from apatite (U-Th)/He ages Early Cenozoic faulting of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin from apatite (U-Th)/He ages

Jul 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010e%26psl.296...78c&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 296, Issue 1-2, p. 78-88.

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Models to explain the distributed nature of continental deformation predict the propagation of strain and high topography away from the plate boundary. Yet a growing body of evidence in the Tibetan orogen suggests that deformation occurred at the far northern extent of the modern plateau early in the orogen's history and thus our current mechanical understanding of orogenic plateau development is incomplete. New apatite (U-Th)/He ages from four elevation transects document periods of rapid exhumation related to erosion pulses in hanging wall rocks of major thrust structures. Accelerated erosion is used as a proxy of fault timing, and is interpreted in a larger context of structural data and sediment accumulation in adjacent foreland basins. Helium results are synthesized with published geologic, thermochronometric, and sedimentologic data from which a growing picture of regional compressional deformation in Middle to Late Eocene time in northern Tibet emerges. We relate the early Cenozoic period of deformation to the initiation of collision between India and Eurasia, despite the fact that the plate boundary was located > 3000 km to the south. Regardless of whether or not high topography was built simultaneously as a result of this deformation, early Cenozoic strain signifies that the modern limit of the orogen has been relatively stationary since continental collision began and that deformation has not significantly propagated farther away from the plate boundary in time.

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