A magnetostratigraphic record of landscape development in the eastern Ordos Plateau, China: Transition from Late Miocene and Early Pliocene stacked sedimentation to Late Pliocene and Quaternary uplift and incision by the Yellow River

Differential impact of small-scaled tectonic movements on fluvial morphology and sedimentology (the Huang Shui catchment, NE Tibet Plateau)

“…Large tectonic basins formed during the Paleogene as a response to early India-Asia collision probably between 55 and 52.5 Ma, for instance the Xining and Lanzhou basins, which both are subbasins of the Longzhong basin (Horton et al, 2004;Dai et al, 2006;Dupont-Nivet et al, 2008). They are similar to other syn-orogenic basins exist in northeast of the Tibetan Plateau, such as the Gonghe basin (Craddock et al, 2010), Lingxia basin (Li, 1991) and Baode basin (Pan et al, 2010(Pan et al, , 2011. The Huang Shui catchment is situated within the Xining subbasin.…”

“…After the development of these beveled surfaces the entire region has been affected by accelerated general uplift simultaneously with continued regional deformation (Li, 1991;Horton et al, 2004). Subsequently, rivers started entrenching from about 14 Ma onward in the Huang Shui catchment (according to Lu et al, 2004;Wang, 2008) as described below and from 4.9, 3.7 and 1.8 Ma along the Huang He (according to Craddock et al, 2010;Pan et al, 2010Pan et al, , 2011. From data of the Huang Shui catchment and from the eastern Tibetan Plateau, presented by Clark et al (2006), apparently the relict planation surfaces have experienced a complex history with different ages of development.…”

Quaternary fluvial archives and landscape evolution: a global synthesis

“…Furthermore, there has been considerable recent effort to document the fluvial terraces of the Colorado and the history of down-cutting by this river, with particular emphasis on the formation of the Grand Canyon (e.g., Pederson et al, 2006Pederson et al, , 2013Karlstrom et al, 2008;Lee et al, 2013;see below). The records from the major Chinese rivers are also important (Li et al, 1997;Pan et al, 2009Pan et al, , 2011Yang, 2006;Vandenberghe et al, 2011;Zhu et al, 2014) and there are records from the southern hemisphere (Bibus, 1983;Bull and Kneupfer, 1987;Bull, 1991;Latrubesse et al, 1997;Hattingh and Rust, 1999;Nott et al, 2002;Westaway, 2006a). This includes exceptional records from Patagonia, where the fluvial archive extends back into the Neogene and is inter-related with evidence for ancient glaciation, preserved by interbedding with volcanic deposits (Mercer, 1976;Martinez and Coronato, 2008).…”

A consistent magnetic polarity stratigraphy of late Neogene to Quaternary fluvial sediments from the Heidelberg Basin (Germany): A new time frame for the Plio–Pleistocene palaeoclimatic evolution of the Rhine Basin

“…Short excursions might not be recorded due to the lock-in depth, and certain polarity events could be completely eroded (e.g., Bleil and von Dobeneck, 1999;Roberts and Winklhofer, 2004). However, similar successions studied in the past decades have demonstrated that it is possible to construct magnetostratigraphic records even without confidently identifying short polarity changes (e.g., Opdyke et al, 1979;Johnson et al, 1986;Scardia et al, 2006;Pan et al, 2011).…”

“…Subchrons with durations of ≤0.1 Ma that occur within chrons are reported frequently, even in continental settings (e.g., Scardia et al, 2006;Pan et al, 2011). Geomagnetic excursions, in contrast, are rarely documented (e.g., Laj and Channell, 2007).…”