Late Quaternary evolution of the Kumkol Basin at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau revealed by tectonic geomorphology and the analysis of in situ cosmogenic nuclides

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.12.026

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	Late Quaternary evolution of the Kumkol Basin at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau revealed by tectonic geomorphology and the analysis of in situ cosmogenic nuclides
	Shirahama, Yoshiki 1; Miyairi, Yosuke 2; He, Honglin 3; Fu, Bihong 4; Echigo, Tomoo 5; Yokoyama, Yusuke 2; Ikeda, Yasutaka 6
刊名	GEOMORPHOLOGY
	2019-03-15
卷号	329 页码:224-247
关键词	Tibetan Plateau Kumkol Basin Tectonic geomorphology Surface exposure dating
ISSN号	0169-555X
DOI	10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.12.026
英文摘要	The Tibetan Plateau was formed by the collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates, and it continues to grow laterally while keeping its elevation constant. The mechanism of the lateral expansion at the northeastern margin of the plateau, however, is highly debated owing to the scarcity of tectonic research. We conducted tectonic geomorphological analyses in the Kumkol Basin, where lateral growth is ongoing. This basin encloses a large active anticlinorium, the Kumkol Anticlinorium (KA), which would provide a quantitative constraint on the lateral growth of the plateau if the tectonically deformed landforms were dated. Our geomorphological mapping revealed six terrace steps, designated T1 to T6 in descending order, along the Pitileke River. In situ cosmogenic radionuclide concentrations in subsurface and surface samples from T1, T2, T3, T4, and T6 showed their formation ages to be 252 +/- 24 ka, 140-160 ka, 103 +/- 23 ka, 98 +/- 11 ka, and 0-23 ka, respectively. Thus, T1 formed during marine isotope stage (MIS) 8, 12 during MIS 6, and T3 and T4 during MIS 5. Our results are quantitative evidence that degradation-aggradation cycles in the basin are correlated with global climatic fluctuations. To estimate the geometry of faults contributing to the evolution of the anticlinorium, we used a dislocation fault model and the overall surface deformation across the KA. The results suggest that the KA has been produced principally by slip on a detachment fault at 15 to 10 km depth, which is within or just above the brittle-ductile transition zone. We then determined the maximum uplift rate to be similar to 1 mm/yr and the horizontal shortening rate to be 2.5-32 mm/yr from the formation ages of the terraces and their deformation. These results suggest that there is a large-scale detachment fault below a basement-involved fold-and-thrust belt and that the concentration of stress at the plateau margin likely facilitated the development of crustal-scale deformation underlying the Kumkol Basin, and this deformation then accelerated the lateral growth of the Tibetan Plateau. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
资助项目	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan[22300314]
WOS关键词	ALTYN-TAGH FAULT ; STRIKE-SLIP ; QAIDAM BASIN ; KUNLUN FAULT ; THRUST BELT ; RATES ; DEFORMATION ; PROPAGATION ; BE-10 ; DETACHMENT
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
WOS记录号	WOS:000460085400017
资助机构	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan ; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan ; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan ; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan ; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan ; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan ; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan ; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.iggcas.ac.cn/handle/132A11/90899]
专题	地质与地球物理研究所_其他部门
通讯作者	Shirahama, Yoshiki
作者单位	1.Natl Inst Adv Ind Sci & Technol, Res Inst Earthquake & Volcano Geol, Geol Survey Japan, Tsukuba, Japan 2.Univ Tokyo, Atmosphere & Ocean Res Inst, Chiba, Japan 3.China Earthquake Adm, Inst Geol, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Beijing, Peoples R China 5.Geores Inst, Osaka, Japan 6.Univ Tokyo, Earth & Planetary Sci, Tokyo, Japan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shirahama, Yoshiki,Miyairi, Yosuke,He, Honglin,et al. Late Quaternary evolution of the Kumkol Basin at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau revealed by tectonic geomorphology and the analysis of in situ cosmogenic nuclides[J]. GEOMORPHOLOGY,2019,329:224-247.
APA	Shirahama, Yoshiki.,Miyairi, Yosuke.,He, Honglin.,Fu, Bihong.,Echigo, Tomoo.,...&Ikeda, Yasutaka.(2019).Late Quaternary evolution of the Kumkol Basin at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau revealed by tectonic geomorphology and the analysis of in situ cosmogenic nuclides.GEOMORPHOLOGY,329,224-247.
MLA	Shirahama, Yoshiki,et al."Late Quaternary evolution of the Kumkol Basin at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau revealed by tectonic geomorphology and the analysis of in situ cosmogenic nuclides".GEOMORPHOLOGY 329(2019):224-247.