Yuntao Tian

Sun Yat-sen University

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Xilin Sun

Hubei University

Zengjie Zhang

Sun Yat-sen University

Barry P. Kohn

University of Melbourne

Shengbiao Hu

Chinese Academy of Sciences

J.R. Wijbrans

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

LI Chang-an

China University of Geosciences

Pieter Vermeesch

University College London

Klaudia F. Kuiper

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Andrew Gleadow

University of Melbourne

Xiaoming Shen

Sinopec (China)

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Sun Yat-sen University

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)

China Earthquake Administration

China University of Geosciences

Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

Ministry of Natural Resources

Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai)

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Insights into the evolution of the Hindu Kush–Kohistan–Karakoram from modern river sand detrital geo- and thermochronological studies

Journal of the Geological Society (2018)

Guangsheng Zhuang Yani Najman Yuntao Tian Andrew Carter Lorenzo Gemignani

The Hindu Kush–Kohistan–Karakoram region is critical to understanding the long-term accretion history of the south Asian margin pre- and post-India–Asia collision and the impact of these collisions on the development of high topography. However, knowledge about this region remains incomplete owing to sparse studies. Here, we present a study comprising detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology, detrital muscovite 40 Ar/ 39 Ar thermochronology and numerical modelling on 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dates. The study identifies zircon U–Pb age peaks at 200, 110–130, 60–80 and 28–40 Ma, supporting the polyphase collisions and crustal growth in the south Asian margin. The modelling study reveals fast cooling–erosion at 115–129, 69–71, 27–35 and <8 Ma, synchronous with collision-related crustal growth, indicating the significant impact of accretion both prior to and post-India–Asia collision. This study, along with studies in eastern Karakoram, reveals along-strike variations in erosion and exhumation with young (since late Miocene) intense erosion focusing on the east–central Karakoram. We suggest that this east–west spatial variation in exhumation may have been associated with more intense crustal shortening, and thus the greater crustal thickness, topographic relief and altitude observed in the eastern compared with the western Karakoram. Supplementary material: Detrital zircon U–Pb ages, detrital muscovite single-crystal 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages and modelling results are available at: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4124573

10.1144/jgs2018-007

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Southwestward growth of plateau surfaces in eastern Tibet

Earth-Science Reviews (2022)

Kai Cao Yuntao Tian Peter van der Beek Guocan Wang Tianyi Shen

10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104160

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An efficient approach for inverting rock exhumation from thermochronologic age–elevation relationship

Earth Surface Dynamics (2024)

Yuntao Tian Lili Pan Guihong Zhang Xinbo Yao

Abstract. This study implements the least-squares inversion method for solving the exhumation history from the thermochronologic age–elevation relationship (AER) based on the linear equation among exhumation rate, age and total exhumation from the closure depth to the Earth surface. Modeling experiments suggest significant and systematic influence of initial geothermal model, the a priori exhumation rate and the time interval length on the a posteriori exhumation history. Lessons learned from the experiments include that (i) the modern geothermal gradient can be used for constraining the initial geothermal model, (ii) a relatively high a priori exhumation rate would lead to systematically lower a posteriori exhumation and vice versa, (iii) the variance of the a priori exhumation rate controls the variation in the inverted exhumation history, and (iv) the choice of time interval length should be optimized for resolving the potential temporal changes in exhumation. To mitigate the dependence of inverted erosion history on these initial parameters, we implemented a new stepwise inverse modeling method for optimizing the model parameters by comparing the observed and predicted thermochronologic data and modern geothermal gradients. Finally, method demonstration was performed using four synthetic datasets and three natural examples of different exhumation rates and histories. It is shown that the inverted rock exhumation histories from the synthetic datasets match the whole picture of the “truth”, although the temporal changes in the magnitude of exhumation are underestimated. Modeling of the datasets from natural samples produces geologically reasonable exhumation histories. The code and data used in this work are available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10839275).

Elevation (ballistics)

10.5194/esurf-12-477-2024

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Progressive tectonic evolution from crustal shortening to mid-lower crustal expansion in the southeast Tibetan Plateau: A synthesis of structural and thermochronological insights

Earth-Science Reviews (2022)

Guihong Zhang Yuntao Tian Rui Li Xiaoming Shen Zengjie Zhang

Anticline

Paleogene

Thermochronology

Neogene

Basement

10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103951

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Instant far-field effects of continental collision: An example study in the Qinling Orogen, northeast of the Tibetan Plateau

Tectonophysics (2022)

Mingming Wang Yuntao Tian Bengang Zhou Ruohong Jiao Guihong Zhang

continental collision

Mountain formation

10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229334

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Long-lagged (∼19 Myr) response of accelerated river incision to rock uplift on the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2022)

Yuhui Ye Lei Wu Eric Cowgill Yuntao Tian Xiubin Lin

Tectonic uplift

Bedrock

Landform

10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117608

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Thermo-rheological structure of the northern margin of the South China Sea: Structural and geodynamic implications

Tectonophysics (2020)

Jie Hu Yuntao Tian Zulie Long Di Hu Yu‐Ping Huang

Peridotite

Passive margin

Continental Margin

10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228338

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Late Miocene hinterland crustal shortening in the Longmen Shan thrust belt, the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Xiaoming Shen Yuntao Tian Shimin Zhang Andrew Carter Barry P. Kohn

<p>Long&#8208;term (million year time scale) fault&#8208;slip history is crucial for understanding the processes and mechanisms of mountain building in active orogens. Such information remains elusive in the Longmen Shan, the eastern Tibetan Plateau margin affected by the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. While this event drew attention to fault deformation on the foreland side (the Yingxiu&#8208;Beichuan fault), little is known about the deformation history of the hinterland Wenchuan&#8208;Maoxian fault. To address this gap, thermochronological data were obtained from two vertical transects from the Xuelongbao massif, located in the hanging wall of the Wenchuan&#8208;Maoxian fault. The data record late Miocene rapid cooling and rock exhumation at a rate of 0.9&#8211;1.2 km/m.y. from ~13 Ma to present. The exhumation rate is significantly higher than that in the footwall (~0.3&#8211;0.5 km/m.y.), indicating a differential exhumation of ~0.6 km/m.y. across the fault. This differential exhumation provides the first and minimum constraint on the long&#8208;term throw rate (~0.6 km/m.y) of the Wenchuan&#8208;Maoxian fault since the late Miocene. This new result implies continuous crustal shortening along the hinterland fault of Longmen Shan, even though it has not been ruptured by major historic earthquakes. Our study lends support to geodynamic models that highlight crustal shortening as dominating deformation along the eastern Tibetan Plateau.</p>

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10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-9479

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The Jinhe–Qinghe fault—An inactive branch of the Xianshuihe–Xiaojiang fault zone, Eastern Tibet

Tectonophysics (2012)

Wang Shifeng Jiang Gui-guo Xu Tiande Yuntao Tian Dewen Zheng

Thrust fault

10.1016/j.tecto.2012.04.004

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Data tables and supporting information for the paper entitled "No Yangtze River prior to the late Miocene: Evidence from detrital muscovite and K-feldspar 40Ar/39Ar geochronology"

Figshare (2020)

Xilin Sun Yuntao Tian Klaudia F. Kuiper LI Chang-an Zengjie Zhang

Data tables and supporting information for the paper entitled "No Yangtze River prior to the late Miocene: Evidence from detrital muscovite and K-feldspar 40Ar/39Ar geochronology"

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Yangtze river

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10.6084/m9.figshare.13073066

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