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Article: Detrital zircon U-Pb ages along the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet: Implications for oblique convergence and collision between India and Asia
Title | Detrital zircon U-Pb ages along the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet: Implications for oblique convergence and collision between India and Asia | ||||||
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Keywords | Cretaceous-Paleogene Detrital zircon provenance India-Asia collision Oblique convergence Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone | ||||||
Issue Date | 2011 | ||||||
Publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jcr | ||||||
Citation | Gondwana Research, 2011, v. 20 n. 4, p. 691-709 How to Cite? | ||||||
Abstract | Age-dating of detrital zircons from 22 samples collected along, and adjacent to, the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, southern Tibet provides distinctive age-spectra that characterize important tectonostratigraphic units. Comparisons with data from Nepal, northern India and the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes of central Tibet constrain possible sources of sediment, and the history of tectonic interactions.Sedimentary rocks in the Cretaceous-Paleogene Xigaze terrane exhibit strong Mesozoic detrital zircon peaks (120 and 170. Ma) together with considerable older inheritance in conglomeratic units. This forearc basin succession developed in association with a continental volcanic arc hinterland in response to Neotethyan subduction under the southern edge of the Eurasia. Conspicuous sediment/source hinterland mismatches suggest that plate convergence along this continental margin was oblique during the Late Cretaceous. The forearc region may have been translated >. 500 km dextrally from an original location nearer to Myanmar.Tethyan Himalayan sediments on the other side of the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone reveal similar older inheritance and although Cretaceous sediments formed 1000s of km and across at least one plate boundary from those in the Xigaze terrane they too contain an appreciable mid-Early Cretaceous (123. Ma) component. In this case it is attributed to volcanism associated with Gondwana breakup.Sedimentary overlap assemblages reveal interactions between colliding terranes. Paleocene Liuqu conglomerates contain a cryptic record of Late Jurassic and Cretaceous rock units that appear to have foundered during a Paleocene collision event prior the main India-Asia collision. Detrital zircons as young as 37. Ma from the upper Oligocene post-collisional Gangrinboche conglomerates indicate that subduction-related convergent margin magmatism continued through until at least Middle and probably Late Eocene along the southern margin of Eurasia (Lhasa terrane).Although the ages of detrital zircons in some units appear compatible with more than one potential source with care other geological relationships can be used to further constrain some linkages and eliminate others. The results document various ocean closure and collision events and when combined with other geological information this new dataset permits a more refined understanding of the time-space evolution of the Cenozoic India-Asia collision system. © 2011 International Association for Gondwana Research. | ||||||
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/145555 | ||||||
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 7.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.742 | ||||||
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Funding Information: We thank members of the Tibetan Ministry of Geology and Resources and the Tibetan Geological Society as well as fellow members of the HKUTRG whose efforts have helped to make this research possible. Many of our Tibetan friends have assisted with arranging logistics and permission. We thank Sun-Lin Chung and Fu-Yuan Wu for earlier discussions on the interpretation of Tibetan detrital zircon data. This work was supported by grants (to JCA) from the Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund, Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Projects HKU 7001/04P and HKU7001/07P) and the HKU CRCG. We would like to thank Peter Cawood, Erdin Bozkurt, George Gehrels, Wenjiao Xiao, Solomon Buckman and Guochun Zhao for their constructive reviews and comments that have helped to improve this manuscript. | ||||||
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dc.contributor.author | Aitchison, JC | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Xia, X | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Baxter, AT | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Ali, JR | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-02-28T01:54:04Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-02-28T01:54:04Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Gondwana Research, 2011, v. 20 n. 4, p. 691-709 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 1342-937X | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/145555 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Age-dating of detrital zircons from 22 samples collected along, and adjacent to, the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, southern Tibet provides distinctive age-spectra that characterize important tectonostratigraphic units. Comparisons with data from Nepal, northern India and the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes of central Tibet constrain possible sources of sediment, and the history of tectonic interactions.Sedimentary rocks in the Cretaceous-Paleogene Xigaze terrane exhibit strong Mesozoic detrital zircon peaks (120 and 170. Ma) together with considerable older inheritance in conglomeratic units. This forearc basin succession developed in association with a continental volcanic arc hinterland in response to Neotethyan subduction under the southern edge of the Eurasia. Conspicuous sediment/source hinterland mismatches suggest that plate convergence along this continental margin was oblique during the Late Cretaceous. The forearc region may have been translated >. 500 km dextrally from an original location nearer to Myanmar.Tethyan Himalayan sediments on the other side of the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone reveal similar older inheritance and although Cretaceous sediments formed 1000s of km and across at least one plate boundary from those in the Xigaze terrane they too contain an appreciable mid-Early Cretaceous (123. Ma) component. In this case it is attributed to volcanism associated with Gondwana breakup.Sedimentary overlap assemblages reveal interactions between colliding terranes. Paleocene Liuqu conglomerates contain a cryptic record of Late Jurassic and Cretaceous rock units that appear to have foundered during a Paleocene collision event prior the main India-Asia collision. Detrital zircons as young as 37. Ma from the upper Oligocene post-collisional Gangrinboche conglomerates indicate that subduction-related convergent margin magmatism continued through until at least Middle and probably Late Eocene along the southern margin of Eurasia (Lhasa terrane).Although the ages of detrital zircons in some units appear compatible with more than one potential source with care other geological relationships can be used to further constrain some linkages and eliminate others. The results document various ocean closure and collision events and when combined with other geological information this new dataset permits a more refined understanding of the time-space evolution of the Cenozoic India-Asia collision system. © 2011 International Association for Gondwana Research. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jcr | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Gondwana Research | en_HK |
dc.subject | Cretaceous-Paleogene | en_HK |
dc.subject | Detrital zircon provenance | en_HK |
dc.subject | India-Asia collision | en_HK |
dc.subject | Oblique convergence | en_HK |
dc.subject | Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone | en_HK |
dc.title | Detrital zircon U-Pb ages along the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet: Implications for oblique convergence and collision between India and Asia | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Aitchison, JC: jona@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Xia, X: xpxia@hotmail.com | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Ali, JR: jrali@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Aitchison, JC=rp00658 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Xia, X=rp00815 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Ali, JR=rp00659 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.gr.2011.04.002 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-80052681394 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 198645 | en_US |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052681394&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_HK |
dc.identifier.volume | 20 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 691 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 709 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000295754700003 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | en_HK |
dc.relation.project | A study of the Neotethyan suture around Mt Kailas, western Tibet - a link between the Indus and Yarlung Tsangpo suture zones | - |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Aitchison, JC=7102533858 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Xia, X=35241486400 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Baxter, AT=35069077600 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Ali, JR=7102266465 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1342-937X | - |