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    Thermochronological insights into the structural contact between the Tian Shan and Pamirs, Tajikistan

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    Jepson, G.
    Glorie, S.
    Konopelko, D.
    Gillespie, J.
    Danišík, M.
    Evans, Noreen
    Mamadjanov, Y.
    Collins, A.
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Jepson, G. and Glorie, S. and Konopelko, D. and Gillespie, J. and Danišík, M. and Evans, N. and Mamadjanov, Y. et al. 2018. Thermochronological insights into the structural contact between the Tian Shan and Pamirs, Tajikistan. Terra Nova. 30 (2): pp. 95-104.
    Source Title
    Terra Nova
    DOI
    10.1111/ter.12313
    ISSN
    0954-4879
    School
    School of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67583
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Multi‐method thermochronology along the Vakhsh‐Surkhob fault zone reveals the thermotectonic history of the South Tian Shan–Pamirs boundary. Apatite U/Pb analyses yield a consistent age of 251 ± 2 Ma, corresponding to cooling below ~550–350°C, related to the final closure of the Palaeo‐Asian Ocean and contemporaneous magmatism in the South Tian Shan. Zircon (U–Th–Sm)/He ages constrain cooling below ~180°C to the end of the Triassic (~200 Ma), likely related either to deformation induced by the Qiangtang collision or to the closure of the Rushan Ocean. Apatite fission track thermochronology reveals two low‐temperature (<120°C) thermal events at ~25 Ma and ~10 Ma, which may be correlated with tectonic activity at the distant southern Eurasian margin. The late Miocene cooling is confirmed by apatite (U–Th–Sm)/He data and marks the onset of mountain building within the South Tian Shan that is ongoing today.

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