Exhuming the Meso-Cenozoic Kyrgyz Tianshan and Siberian Altai-Sayan: A review based on low-temperature thermochronology

被引:113
作者
Glorie, Stijn [1 ]
De Grave, Johan [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Adelaide, Sch Phys Sci, Dept Earth Sci, Ctr Tecton Resources & Explorat TRaX, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[2] Univ Ghent, Dept Geol & Soil Sci, MINPET Grp, 281-S8 Krijgslaan, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
Altai Sayan; Central Asia; Exhumation; Fault reactivation; Thermochronology; Tianshan;
D O I
10.1016/j.gsf.2015.04.003
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
Thermochronological datasets for the Kyrgyz Tianshan and Siberian Altai-Sayan within Central Asia reveal a punctuated exhumation history during the Meso-Cenozoic. In this paper, the datasets for both regions are collectively reviewed in order to speculate on the links between the Meso-Cenozoic exhumation of the continental Eurasian interior and the prevailing tectonic processes at the plate margins. Whereas most of the thermochronological data across both regions document late Jurassic-Cretaceous regional basement cooling, older landscape relics and dissecting fault zones throughout both regions preserve Triassic and Cenozoic events of rapid cooling, respectively. Triassic cooling is thought to reflect the Qiangtang-Eurasia collision and/or rifting/subsidence in the West Siberian basin. Alternatively, this cooling signal could be related with the terminal terrane-amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. For the Kygyz Tianshan, late Jurassic-Cretaceous regional exhumation and Cenozoic fault reactivations can be linked with specific tectonic events during the closure of the Palaeo-Tethys and Neo-Tethys Oceans, respectively. The effect of the progressive consumption of these oceans and the associated collisions of Cimmeria and India with Eurasia probably only had a minor effect on the exhumation of the Siberian Altai-Sayan. More likely, tectonic forces from the east (present-day coordinates) as a result of the building and collapse of the Mongol-Okhotsk orogen and rifting in the Baikal region shaped the current Siberian Altai-Sayan topography. Although many of these hypothesised links need to be tested further, they allow a first-order insight into the dynamic response and the stress propagation pathways from the Eurasian margin into the continental interior. (C) 2015, China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Peking University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V.
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