Thermal evolution and slip history of the Renbu Zedong Thrust, southeastern Tibet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B2, 1997, Pages 2659-2679

  Quidelleur, Xavier ^a,c,d   Grove, Marty ^a,d   Lovera, Oscar M ^a,d   Harrison, T Mark ^a,d   Yin, An ^a,b,d   Ryerson, F J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorine specific detection; Dissociative electron attachment; Gas chromatograms; Negative ion chemical ionization

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIP; HEAT FLOW; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THRUST;

CHINA, TIBET;

EID: 0030764067     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Allègre, C.J., et al., Structure and evolution of the Himalaya-Tibet erogenic belt, Nature, 307, 17-22, 1984.
2. 39 Ar in metamorphic hornblende, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 105, 691-703, 1990.
3. Bilham, R., K. Larson, and J. Freymuller, India/Tibet convergence rate from 1991-1995 geodetic measurments in the Nepal Himalaya, paper presented at the 11th Himalayan-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop, Flagstaff, Ariz. April 29 to May 1, 1996.
4. Bouchez, J.L., and A. Pêcher, Himalayan Main Central Thrust pile and its quartz-rich tectonites in central Nepal, Tectonophysics, 78, 23-50, 1981.
5. Burbank, D.W., R.A. Beck, and T. Mulder, The Himalayan foreland basin, in The Tectonics of Asia, edited by A. Yin and T.M. Harrison, pp. 149-188, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1996.
6. Burchfiel, B.C., Z. Chen, K.V., Hodges, Y., Liu, L.H., Royden, C. Deng, and J. Xu, The South Tibetan Detachment System, Himalayan orogen: Extension contemporaneous with and parallel to shortening in a collisional mountain belt, Spec. Pap. Geol. Soc. Am., 269, 1-41, 1992.
7. Burg, J.P. (Compiler), Carte géologique du sud du Tibet, scale 1:500,000, Cent. Natl. de la Rec. Sci., 1983.
8. Burg, J.P., M. Brunel, D. Gapais, G.M. Chen, and G.H. Liu, Deformation of leucogranites of the crystalline Main Central Sheet in southern Tibet (China), J. Struc. Geol., 6, 535-542, 1984.
9. Coleman, M.E., and R.R. Parrish, Constraints on Miocene high-temperature deformation and anatexis within the Greater Himalaya from U-Pb geochronology, Eos Trans. AGU, 76 (46), Fall Meet. Suppl., F708, 1995.
10. Compston W., I.S. Williams, and C. Meyer, U-Pb geochronology of zircons from Lunar Breccia 73217 using a sensitive, high mass resolution ion microprobe, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 8525-8534, 1984.
11. Copeland, P., T.M. Harrison, W.S.F. Kidd, M. Roden, and Z. Yuquan, Thermal evolution of the Gangdese Bathblith, southern Tibet: A history of episodic unroofing, Tectonics, 14, 223-236, 1995.
12. Edwards, M.A., W.S.F. Kidd, and T.M.Harrison, Active medial Miocene detachment in the High Himalaya of the Tibet-Bhutan frontier: A young crystallization age for the Khula Kangri leucogranite pluton, Eos Trans. AGU, 76 (46), Fall Meet. Suppl., F567, 1995.
13. 40Ar diffusion in homogeneous orthoclase and an interpretation of Ar diffusion in K-feldspars, Geachim. Cosmochim. Acta, 38, 151-166, 1974.
14. Gansser, A., The geodynamic history of the Himalaya, in Zagms, Hindu Kush, Himalaya-Geodynamic Evolution, Geodyn. Ser., vol 3, edited by H.K. Gupta and P.M. Delany, AGU, pp. 111-121, Washington, D.C., 1981.
15. Warig, X., Z. M. Li, and Qiangba-Xiyiao, Geologic map of the Xigaze-Zedong region, scale 1:100,000, Xizang (Tibet) with report.,568 p., Xizang Bur. of Geol., Lhasa, China, 1983.
16. 39Ar analysis of biotite, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 104, 70-79, 1991.
17. Yin, A., T.M. Harrison, F.J. Ryerson, Chen W., W.S.F. Kidd, and P. Copeland, Tertiary structural evolution of the Gangdese Thrust: southeastern Tibet, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 18, 175-18, 201, 1994.
18. 39Ar analysis, Chem. Geol., 65, 167-181, 1987.
19. Zhao, W., K.D. Nelson, and Project INDEPTH Team, Deep seismic reflection evidence for continental underthrusting beneath southern Tibet, Nature. 366, 557-559, 1993.