Two-stage exhumation, uplift, and basinward propagation of the Tian Shan during the late Cenozoic

Y Jiang, H Lu, R Yang, L Pang, R Jiao, Y Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
As a typical intracontinental orogenic belt, the Tian Shan range is a natural lab for the
understanding of ongoing intraplate deformation and related geodynamic mechanisms …

Apparent polar wander paths of the major Chinese blocks since the Late Paleozoic: Toward restoring the amalgamation history of east Eurasia

L Wu, VA Kravchinsky, DK Potter - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
High quality paleomagnetic poles (aka paleopoles) are essential for quantitative lithospheric
plate reconstruction. However, the current paleomagnetic database of the major Chinese …

Location of largest earthquake slip and fast rupture controlled by along‐strike change in fault structural maturity due to fault growth

C Perrin, I Manighetti, JP Ampuero… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Earthquake slip distributions are asymmetric along strike, but the reasons for the asymmetry
are unknown. We address this question by establishing empirical relations between …

Cenozoic right-slip faulting along the eastern margin of the Pamir salient, northwestern China

E Cowgill - Bulletin, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Pamir salient defines the western end of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and has
overthrust the Tarim-Tajik basin to the north by∼ 300 km along a late Cenozoic, south …

Cenozoic deformation and exhumation history of the Central Kyrgyz Tien Shan

EA Macaulay, ER Sobel, A Mikolaichuk, B Kohn… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
New low‐temperature thermochronological data from 80 samples in eastern Kyrgyzstan are
combined with previously published data from 61 samples to constrain exhumation in a …

Chronology and tectonic controls of Late Tertiary deposition in the southwestern Tian Shan foreland, NW China

RV Heermance, J Chen, DW Burbank, C Wang - Basin Research, 2007 - earthdoc.org
Magnetostratigraphy from the Kashi foreland basin along the southern margin of the Tian
Shan in Western China defines the chronology of both sedimentation and the structural …

Intracontinental subduction beneath the Pamir Mountains: Constraints from thermokinematic modeling of shortening in the Tajik fold-and-thrust belt

JB Chapman, B Carrapa, P Ballato… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A regional, balanced cross section is presented for the thin-skinned Tajik fold-and-thrust
belt, constrained by new structural and stratigraphic data, industrial well-log data, flexural …

Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Chaka basin and its implications for mountain building processes in the north‐eastern Tibetan Plateau

HP Zhang, WH Craddock, RO Lease, W Wang… - Basin …, 2012 - earthdoc.org
Magnetostratigraphy of sedimentary rock deposited in the Chaka basin (north‐eastern
Tibetan Plateau) indicates a late Miocene onset of basin formation and subsequent …

Late Miocene northward propagation of the northeast Pamir thrust system, northwest China

JA Thompson, DW Burbank, T Li, J Chen… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Piggyback basins on the margins of growing orogens commonly serve as sensitive
recorders of the onset of thrust deformation and changes in source areas. The Bieertuokuoyi …

Cenozoic tectonic deformation and uplift of the South Tian Shan: Implications from magnetostratigraphy and balanced cross-section restoration of the Kuqa …

T Zhang, X Fang, C Song, E Appel, Y Wang - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
The collision of India with Eurasia has caused rejuvenated deformation and uplift of the
remote Tian Shan intracontinental orogenic range and has led to deposition of thick …