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 …

Cenozoic exhumation of the Tianshan as constrained by regional low-temperature thermochronology

Y Wang, J Zhang, X Huang, Z Wang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The Tianshan range, located in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB),
represents an excellent natural laboratory for investigating intracontinental deformation. The …

Reconciling patterns of long-term topographic growth with coseismic uplift by synchronous duplex thrusting

Y Zhang, H Chen, X Shi, R Almeida, R Walker… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
How long-term changes in surface topography relate to coseismic uplift is key to
understanding the creation of high elevations along active mountain fronts, and remains …

The Neogene Xiyu Formation, a diachronous prograding gravel wedge at front of the Tianshan: Climatic and tectonic implications

J Charreau, C Gumiaux, JP Avouac, R Augier… - Earth and Planetary …, 2009 - Elsevier
The Tarim and Junggar basins in central Asia are capped by a thick pile of conglomerates,
called the Xiyu Formation, that are commonly linked to a change in climate and/or …

[HTML][HTML] Mountain building: From earthquakes to geological deformation

JP Avouac, G Schubert - Dynamic processes in extensional and …, 2007 - textarchive.ru
Mountain ranges are the most spectacular manifestation of continental dynamics. The fact
that some mountain ranges were able to maintain their topography over tens of millions …

Temporal constraints and pulsed Late Cenozoic deformation during the structural disruption of the active Kashi foreland, northwest China

RV Heermance, J Chen, DW Burbank, J Miao - Tectonics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
In response to the ongoing Indo‐Asian collision, structural deformation has encroached into
the Tian Shan foreland in western China since the early Miocene. In order to reconstruct a …

Deciphering the rate of mountain growth during topographic presteady state: An example from the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau

L Palumbo, R Hetzel, M Tao, X Li, J Guo - Tectonics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We use field investigations, topographic profiles, and 10Be exposure dating to constrain the
growth rate of the Yumu Shan, a thrust‐bounded mountain range at the northeastern margin …

Oroclinal bending, distributed thrust and strike-slip faulting, and the accommodation of Arabia–Eurasia convergence in NE Iran since the Oligocene

J Hollingsworth, M Fattahi, R Walker… - Geophysical Journal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Regional shortening is accommodated across NE Iran in response to the collision of Arabia
with Eurasia. We examine how N–S shortening is achieved on major thrust systems …

Miocene to present kinematics of fault-bend folding across the Huerguosi anticline, northern Tianshan (China), derived from structural, seismic, and …

J Charreau, JP Avouac, Y Chen, S Dominguez… - …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We combine surface structural measurements, subsurface seismic imaging, and magneto-
stratigraphic dating to retrieve, through geometric modeling, the detailed history of fold …

Spatiotemporal patterns of the Late Quaternary deformation across the northern Chinese Tian Shan foreland

H Lu, B Li, D Wu, J Zhao, X Zheng, J Xiong, Y Li - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The investigations of active deformation across a mountain foreland can provide important
insights into the pattern and dynamics of deformation of an active orogenic belt. Here we …