Xilin Sun

Hubei University

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Zengjie Zhang

Sun Yat-sen University

Yuntao Tian

Sun Yat-sen University

LI Chang-an

China University of Geosciences

J.R. Wijbrans

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Klaudia F. Kuiper

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

J. Stephen Daly

University College Dublin

Eszter Badenszki

Science Foundation Ireland

Rujun Guo

China University of Geosciences

Shane Tyrrell

Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway

Yi Yan

Northeastern University

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China University of Geosciences

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chengdu University of Technology

State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation

Sun Yat-sen University

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)

China University of Geosciences (Beijing)

China Geological Survey

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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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40Ar/39Ar geochronology constraints on the formation age of Myanmar jadeitite

Lithos (2013)

Min Qi Hua Xiang Zengqiu Zhong Hua‐Ning Qiu Hao Wang

Amphibole

Geochronology

Metasomatism

10.1016/j.lithos.2012.12.012

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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"

Muscovite

Geochronology

Yangtze river

Thermochronology

10.6084/m9.figshare.13073066

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Pb isotope compositions of detrital K‐feldspar grains in the upper‐middle Yangtze River system: Implications for sediment provenance and drainage evolution

Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (2014)

Zengjie Zhang Shane Tyrrell LI Chang-an J. Stephen Daly Xilin Sun

Abstract The upper‐middle Yangtze River drains the Qiangtang Block, the Songpan‐Ganzi, the Yangtze Craton, and the Qinling‐Dabie orogenic belt. These tectonic units have been shown to have heterogeneous Pb isotopic compositions, which allow this isotope system to be used as a sediment provenance tool. In this study we have employed laser ablation multiple collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA‐MC‐ICPMS) to measure Pb isotope compositions of sand‐sized K‐feldspar grains from the upper‐middle Yangtze River. Data are presented from four major tributaries: Yalongjiang, Minjiang, Jialingjiang, and Hanjiang, as well as from the main Yangtze River near Yichang. A portion of K‐feldspar grains in the Yalongjiang shows an ultraradiogenic character ( 206 Pb/ 204 Pb > 20), which is unique in the upper‐middle Yangtze. Moreover, these ultraradiogenic grains were transported as far as Yichang, just downstream from the Three Gorges, suggesting that the Pb‐in‐K‐feldspar method could be applied to the sediments within the Jianghan Basin to date the formation of the Three Gorges. Pb isotopic data from Yichang indicate that erosion in the Longmen Shan and neighboring regions is more important than the Jinshajiang in supplying sediment. The grains in Hanoi Basin have little overlap with the Songpan‐Ganzi, but show a good match with the Yangtze Craton in its range of lower 206 Pb/ 204 Pb ratios. These observations support the idea that the “Middle Yangtze” used to be a tributary of the paleo‐Red River and that there has been no drainage linking the Songpan‐Ganzi and the Red River since the Eocene.

10.1002/2014gc005391

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Sedimentary provenance perspectives on the evolution of the major rivers draining the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Earth-Science Reviews (2022)

Zengjie Zhang J. Stephen Daly Yuntao Tian Shane Tyrrell Xilin Sun

10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104151

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Thermochronological constraints on Eocene deformation regime in the Long-Men Shan: Implications for the eastward growth of the Tibetan Plateau

Global and Planetary Change (2022)

Yuntao Tian Yimin Liu Rui Li Xilin Sun Zengjie Zhang

Thermochronology

Strain partitioning

Mountain formation

10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103930

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No connection between the upper Yangtze and Red rivers in the Cenozoic

Figshare (2022)

Rujun Guo Xilin Sun LI Chang-an David Chew Zengjie Zhang

Data tables and supporting information for the paper entitled :No connection between the upper Yangtze and Red rivers in the Cenozoic

Yangtze river

10.6084/m9.figshare.19148933

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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"

Geochronology

Muscovite

Yangtze river

10.6084/m9.figshare.13073066.v2

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Improving the precision of single grain mica 40Ar/39Ar-dating on smaller and younger muscovite grains: Application to provenance studies

Chemical Geology (2019)

Lorenzo Gemignani Klaudia F. Kuiper J.R. Wijbrans Xilin Sun Alessandro Santato

Muscovite

10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.02.013

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⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar mica dating of late Cenozoic sediments in SE Tibet: implications for sediment recycling and drainage evolution

Journal of the Geological Society (2020)

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

The Indo-Asia collision significantly changed the topography and drainage network of rivers around the Tibetan Plateau. Debate continues as to when and how the current drainage system of the Yangtze River was formed. Here we use 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating of detrital micas (muscovite and biotite) to constrain provenances of the Pliocene sediments from the Jianchuan and Yuanmou basins in SE Tibet. Muscovite and biotite data of the same Pliocene samples from the Jianchuan Basin suggest contrasting distal v. local sources, respectively. Similarly, muscovite data of the Yuanmou Basin suggest a derivation of sediments from the Yalong River, but the characteristics of the Pliocene cobbles (palaeocurrent and subrounded cobbles) suggest that these sediments are locally sourced. Sediment reworking is proposed as an explanation for the different sediment provenance signals in the Jianchuan and Yuanmou basins that have led to the controversy of an either Pleistocene or pre-Miocene age of formation of the current Yangtze. Based on sediment provenance constraints, the evolution of the Jinsha River is reconstructed. The upper Jinsha River lost its connection with the southward flowing Red River upstream from the Jianchuan basin at least before the Pliocene. At the same time a parallel site in the Yuanmou Basin shows that the Yalong River stopped flowing southward into this basin. Detrital mica from early Pleistocene sediments at the Panzhihua site between the Jianchuan and Yuanmou basins is sourced from the current Jinsha and Yalong rivers. These results would suggest that the current upper Yangtze drainage system should have been established before the Pliocene. Supplementary material: Muscovite 40 Ar/ 39 Ar data, biotite 40 Ar/ 39 Ar data and muscovite geochemistry are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4821573

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Radiometric dating

10.1144/jgs2019-099

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