Cenozoic deformation of the Tarim Basin and surrounding ranges (Xinjiang, China): A regional overview

A Laborde, L Barrier, M Simoes, H Li, T Coudroy… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
With its central position between the Tibetan Plateau and the Tian Shan Range, the Tarim
Basin is a key element of the Cenozoic Asian orogenic system. However, a comprehensive …

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 …

Building the Pamir‐Tibetan Plateau—Crustal stacking, extensional collapse, and lateral extrusion in the Central Pamir: 2. Timing and rates

D Rutte, L Ratschbacher, J Khan, K Stübner… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Geothermochronologic data outline the temperature‐deformation‐time evolution of the
Muskol and Shatput gneiss domes and their hanging walls in the Central Pamir. Prograde …

Indentation of the Pamirs with respect to the northern margin of Tibet: Constraints from the Tarim basin sedimentary record

T Blayney, Y Najman, G Dupont‐Nivet, A Carter… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Pamirs represent the indented westward continuation of the northern margin of the
Tibetan Plateau, dividing the Tarim and Tajik basins. Their evolution may be a key factor …

Tectonic evolution of the Pamir recorded in the western Tarim Basin (China): Sedimentologic and magnetostratigraphic analyses of the Aertashi section

T Blayney, G Dupont‐Nivet, Y Najman, JN Proust… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The northward indentation of the Pamir salient into the Tarim basin at the western syntaxis of
the India‐Asia collision zone is the focus of controversial models linking lithospheric to …

[HTML][HTML] Meso-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Talas-Fergana region of the Kyrgyz Tien Shan revealed by low-temperature basement and detrital thermochronology

S Nachtergaele, E De Pelsmaeker, S Glorie… - Geoscience …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study provides new low-temperature thermochronometric data, mainly apatite fission
track data on the basement rocks in and adjacent to the Talas-Fergana Fault, in the Kyrgyz …

Cenozoic intracontinental deformation and exhumation at the northwestern tip of the India‐Asia collision—southwestern Tian Shan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan

A Käßner, L Ratschbacher, R Jonckheere… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Along the Ghissar‐Alai Range of the southwestern Tian Shan (southwestern
Kyrgyzstan, northern Tajikistan), the deformation front of the India‐Asia collision—the Pamir …

[HTML][HTML] Thermo-tectonic history of the Junggar Alatau within the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (SE Kazakhstan, NW China): Insights from integrated apatite U/Pb, fission …

S Glorie, A Otasevic, J Gillespie, G Jepson… - Geoscience …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Junggar Alatau forms the northern extent of the Tian Shan within the Central
Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) at the border of SE Kazakhstan and NW China. This study …

Exhumation history of the western Kyrgyz Tien Shan: Implications for intramontane basin formation

A Bande, ER Sobel, A Mikolaichuk, A Schmidt… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The dextral Talas‐Fergana Fault separates the western from the central Tien Shan.
Recent work has shed light on the Cenozoic evolution of the eastern and central Tien Shan; …

Climate as the great equalizer of continental‐scale erosion

G Jepson, B Carrapa, J Gillespie… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Central Asia hosts the most extensive and highest topography on Earth, which is the result of
the feedbacks among rock uplift, atmospheric circulation and moisture transport, and …