Pliocene uplift of the northern Tibetan Plateau

Research Article| August 01, 2000 Pliocene uplift of the northern Tibetan Plateau Hongbo Zheng; Hongbo Zheng 1State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xian 710054, China2Tectonics Special Research Centre, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6907, Australia Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Christopher McAulay Powell; Christopher McAulay Powell 2Tectonics Special Research Centre, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6907, Australia Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Zhisheng An; Zhisheng An 1State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xian 710054, China Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Jie Zhou; Jie Zhou 1State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xian 710054, China Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Guangrong Dong Guangrong Dong 3Institute of Desert Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Geology (2000) 28 (8): 715–718. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2000)282.0.CO;2 Article history received: 03 Jan 2000 rev-recd: 02 May 2000 accepted: 17 May 2000 first online: 02 Jun 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Hongbo Zheng, Christopher McAulay Powell, Zhisheng An, Jie Zhou, Guangrong Dong; Pliocene uplift of the northern Tibetan Plateau. Geology 2000;; 28 (8): 715–718. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2000)282.0.CO;2 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentBy SocietyGeology Search Advanced Search Abstract Neogene redbeds passing upward into upward-coarsening conglomerate and debris-flow deposits at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains record the change in paleoslope related to uplift of the surface of the northern Tibetan Plateau. Detailed magnetostratigraphy of a 4.5 km section near Yecheng in the western Kunlun Mountains shows that the change from deposition on distal alluvial plains to proximal alluvial fans occurred during the Gilbert reversed chron (4.5–3.5 Ma). The change in depositional facies was accompanied by an increase in sedimentation rate from an average ∼0.15 mm/yr between the earliest Oligocene and the earliest Pliocene to 1.4 mm/yr in the Gauss normal chron (3.6–2.6 Ma). We interpret the change in depositional facies and increase in sedimentation rate as indicating that the main uplift of the northwestern Tibetan Plateau began ca. 4.5 Ma. You do not currently have access to this article.