[1] Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology was applied to Cenozoic fluvial sedimentary rocks from the Jianchuan Basin, Yunnan Province, China to constrain the provenance and the nature of paleo-drainage. Local geology testifies to a large river flowing through the Jianchuan Basin during the Paleogene and this previously has been linked to a paleo drainage system that connected the Qiangtang and Lhasa blocks to the South China Sea. The detrital zircon results from this study do not fit with this model and instead show provenance consistent with a river draining a watershed within the Songpan-Garze Complex, most likely from the northeast. From the late Oligocene and thereafter zircon provenance records greater contributions from erosion of local sources that surround the basin including the South China Block and Yidun Arc rocks that suggest loss of the northern sources. The timing for these changes overlap with regional deformation related to strike-slip faulting or displacement by shear strain rather than the later uplift associated with an expanding margin of the Tibetan Plateau.Components: 5200 words, 6 figures.

IRT readings from the side of the face, especially from the ear at 0.5 m, yielded the most reliable, precise and consistent estimates of conventionally determined body temperatures. Our results have important implications for walk-through IRT scanning/screening systems at airports and border crossings, particularly as the point prevalence of fever in such subjects would be very low.

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