Tectonic Evolution of the Pamir Recorded in the Western Tarim Basin (China): Sedimentologic and Magnetostratigraphic Analyses of the Aertashi Section

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作者
Blayney, Tamsin [1 ]
Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume [2 ,3 ,4 ]
Najman, Yani [1 ]
Proust, Jean-Noel [2 ]
Meijer, Niels [3 ]
Roperch, Pierrick [2 ]
Sobel, Edward R. [3 ]
Millar, Ian [5 ]
Guo, Zhaojie [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster Environm Ctr, Bailrigg, England
[2] Univ Rennes, CNRS, Geosci Rennes, UMR, Rennes, France
[3] Potsdam Univ, Inst Earth & Environm Sci, Potsdam, Germany
[4] Minist Educ, Key Lab Orogen Belts & Crustal Evolut, Beijing, Peoples R China
[5] BGS Keyworth, NERC Isotope Geosci Lab, Nottingham, England
关键词
India-Asia collision; Tarim basin; Pamir; Cenozoic; paleomagnetism; sedimentology; TIBETAN PLATEAUCRUSTAL STACKING; LATE CENOZOIC DEFORMATION; MIGMATITIC GNEISS DOME; EARLY MIOCENE BIRTH; TIAN-SHAN FORELAND; TAGH FAULT SYSTEM; ALTYN-TAGH; EXTENSIONAL COLLAPSE; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; LATERAL EXTRUSION;
D O I
10.1029/2018TC005146
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
070403 [天体物理学]; 070902 [地球化学];
摘要
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 surface and atmospheric processes. Here we report on tectonic events recorded in the most complete and best-dated sedimentary sequences from the western Tarim basin flanking the eastern Pamir (the Aertashi section), based on sedimentologic, provenance, and magnetostratigraphic analyses. Increased tectonic subsidence and a shift from marine to continental fluvio-deltaic deposition at 41Ma indicate that far-field deformation from the south started to affect the Tarim region. A sediment accumulation hiatus from 24.3 to 21.6Ma followed by deposition of proximal conglomerates is linked to fault propagation into the Tarim basin. From 21.6 to 15.0Ma, increasing accumulation rates of fining upward clastics is interpreted as the expression of a major dextral transtensional system linking the Kunlun to the Tian Shan ahead of the northward Pamir indentation. At 15.0Ma, the appearance of North Pamir-sourced conglomerates followed at 11Ma by Central Pamir-sourced volcanics coincides with a shift to E-W compression, clockwise vertical-axis rotations and the onset of growth strata associated with the activation of the local east vergent Qimugen thrust wedge. Together, this enables us to interpret that Pamir indentation into Tarim had started by 24.3Ma, reached the study location by 15.0Ma and had passed it by 11Ma, providing kinematic constraints on proposed tectonic models involving intracontinental subduction and delamination.
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