The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth

Zhu, Di‐Cheng; Zhao, Zhidan; Niu, Yaoling; Mo, Xuanxue; Chung, Sun‐Lin; Hou, Zhenshan; Wang, Liquan; Wu, Fu‐Yuan

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“…Responsible for these evolutionary processes, Mesozoic magmatic rocks are widely distributed in the southern Tibet, which can offer important insights into mantle-crust interaction and the growth of the continental crust (e.g., Zhu et al, 2011Zhu et al, , 2013Sui et al, 2013). Although recent researches inferred that the Late Cretaceous magmatism in central-northern Lhasa terrane were related with the northward subduction of Neo-Tethyan Ocean lithosphere (e.g., Ma and Yue, 2010;Meng et al, 2014) or thickened crust (e.g., Wang et al, 2014;Sun et al, 2015b), the petrogenesis of the Late Cretaceous K-rich rocks and their geodynamic setting in above areas still remain poorly known.…”

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“…The Lhasa terrane is divided into northern, central, and southern subterranes that are separated by the Yongzhu-Asuo ophiolite belt (also termed the Shiquan River-Nam Tso Mélange zone, SNMZ), and the Luobadui-Milashan Fault (LMF), respectively (Fig. 1b;Zhu et al, 2011Zhu et al, , 2013.…”

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“…The northern Lhasa subterrane consists of juvenile crust that formed by the underplating of mantle-derived magmas generated during southward subduction of oceanic crust of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethyan Ocean and the subsequent Mesozoic collision between the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes (Zhu et al, 2011. The northern Lhasa subterrane is covered by Middle Triassic-Cretaceous sediments and hosts abundant Cretaceous volcanics and related granitoids (e.g., Pan et al, 2004Pan et al, , 2012Zhao et al, 2008;Ma and Yue, 2010;Kang et al, 2010;Sui et al, 2013;Zhu et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2014).…”

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“…The central Lhasa subterrane is a microcontinent that contains Precambrian basement rocks (Zhu et al, 2011 and has undergone multiple episodes of metamorphism (Xu et al, 1985;Kapp et al, 2005;Z.M. Zhang et al, 2014).…”

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“…Zhang et al, 2014). This reworked crystalline basement is covered by Carboniferous-Permian metasedimentary and Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous sedimentary units (Zhu et al, 2011 Leeder et al, 1988;Yin et al, 1988;Sun et al, 2015a).…”

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Late Cretaceous high-Mg# granitoids in southern Tibet: Implications for the early crustal thickening and tectonic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau?

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granitoids in southern Tibet: Implications for the early crustal thickening and tectonic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau?, LITHOS (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.06.020 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Late Cretaceous high-MgA C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTthat they were not derived from the partial melting of subducted oceanic crust in an arc setting.

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Jurassic tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Junggar basin, NW China: A record of Mesozoic intraplate deformation in Central Asia

Yang

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2015

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Mesozoic basins in northwest China provide important records for investigating relationships between intraplate deformation in Central Asia and tectonic processes at Asian boundaries. The present study, using well, seismic, outcrop, and thermochronology data in the Junggar Basin and neighboring areas, describes the main features of Jurassic strata in the basin, analyzes the Jurassic evolution of the basin and neighboring mountain belts, and discusses possible mechanisms of Jurassic intraplate deformation in Central Asia. During the Early-Middle Jurassic, episodic uplift of surrounding mountain belts kept the Junggar Basin a contractional closed basin, and alluvial fan, fluvial, delta, and lacustrine depositional environments successively developed from surrounding ranges to the central basin. During the Late Jurassic, the western and central parts of the basin were folded and uplifted, and deposition migrated mainly to the eastern basin. During the latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous, pre-Cretaceous strata in the eastern and northeastern Junggar Basin were folded and uplifted, and coarse-grained sediments were transported from surrounding uplifts to the central basin. We suggest that Jurassic episodic deformation events in the Junggar Basin and other areas of Central Asia are related to the Qiangtang collision during the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic, the closure of the western Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean at the Early/Middle Jurassic boundary, a collision of a microcontinent in the Pamir with the southern Asian margin during the late Middle Jurassic-early Late Jurassic, the collision of the Kolyma-Omolon Block with Siberia at the end of the Jurassic, and the subsequent closure of the eastern Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean during the latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous.

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Synorogenic morphotectonic evolution of the Gangdese batholith, South Tibet: Insights from low‐temperature thermochronology

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The uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau remains one of most intriguing and controversial issues in the Cenozoic history of our planet, and has a significant impact on regional and global climate. Here, we report new low‐temperature thermochronology apatite and zircon data from the Gangdese batholith in southern Tibet. Thermal history modeling of the data show that the batholith experienced a phase of rapid Early Cenozoic cooling probably associated with exhumation resulting from the initial India‐Asia's collision, but possibly also due to postarc volcanic activity in the region. The batholith, then transitioned to low erosion rates (<0.05 mm/yr) between the Middle Eocene and Early Miocene, followed by a renewed episode of cooling commencing in the Early Miocene. Our results indicate that the Gangdese belt, as the southern margin of Eocene Tibetan Plateau, became plateau‐like by ∼45 Ma. The later cooling episode from Early Miocene onward, can probably be attributed to incision of the ancestral Yarlung River system, cutting through the Gangdese belt by ∼22 Ma at the latest.

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The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth

Cited by 1,119 publications

References 79 publications

Late Cretaceous high-Mg# granitoids in southern Tibet: Implications for the early crustal thickening and tectonic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau?

Late Cretaceous high-Mg# granitoids in southern Tibet: Implications for the early crustal thickening and tectonic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau?

Jurassic tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Junggar basin, NW China: A record of Mesozoic intraplate deformation in Central Asia

Synorogenic morphotectonic evolution of the Gangdese batholith, South Tibet: Insights from low‐temperature thermochronology

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