scholarly journals Constraints on the Emplacement and Uplift History of the Pine Mountain Thrust Sheet, Eastern Kentucky: Evidence from Coal Rank Trends

1990 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran O'Hara ◽  
James C. Hower ◽  
Susan M. Rimmer
Keyword(s):  
Coal Rank ◽  
Thrust Sheet ◽  
Eastern Kentucky ◽  
Pine Mountain ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uplift History

scholarly journals Uplift history of the Sila Massif, southern Italy, deciphered from cosmogenic10Be erosion rates and river longitudinal profile analysis

Tectonics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Olivetti ◽  
Andrew J. Cyr ◽  
Paola Molin ◽  
Claudio Faccenna ◽  
Darryl E. Granger
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Profile Analysis ◽  
Longitudinal Profile ◽  
Erosion Rates ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uplift History

Age, Inheritance, and Uplift History of the Old Woman-Piute Batholith, California and Implications for K-Feldspar Age Spectra

1989 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Foster ◽  
T. Mark Harrison ◽  
Calvin F. Miller
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Uplift History

Paleoaltitudinal histories for the northern and southern margins of the Tibetan Plateau during the Late Cenozoic: revealed by GDGTs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chihao Chen ◽  
Yan Bai ◽  
Xiaomin Fang ◽  
Haichao Guo ◽  
Weilin Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Late Miocene ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Lake Surface ◽  
Terrestrial Organic Matter ◽  
Plant Fossils ◽  
History Of ◽  
Monsoon System ◽  
Uplift History

<p>As an important driver of global climate change during the Cenozoic, the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) has strongly influenced the origination and evolution of the Asian monsoon system, and therefore the aridification of central Asia. Over the last two decades, the application of stable isotope paleoaltimeters and the discoveries of mammal and plant fossils have greatly promoted the understanding of the uplift history of the TP. However, paleoaltitudinal reconstructions based on different paleoaltimeters have suggested differing outcomes and therefore remain controversial. Novel paleoaltimeters have therefore needed to be developed and applied to constrain the uplift history of the TP more accurately and effectively by comparing and verifying multi-proxies. Paleothermometers based on glyceryl dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are widely used in terrestrial and ocean temperature reconstructions. In this study, GDGT-based paleothermometers were tentatively applied to the Gyirong Basin on the southern TP, and the Xining Basins on the northern TP, in an attempt to quantitatively reconstruct their paleoaltitudes.</p><p>Both soil and aquatic-typed branched GDGTs have been identified from Late Miocene to Mid-Pliocene (7.0-3.2 Ma) samples taken from the Gyirong Basin; their reconstructed paleotemperatures were 7.5±3.3°C and 14.2±4.5°C, respectively. The former temperature may represent the mean temperature of the terrestrial organic matter input area, while the latter may represent the lake surface temperature. The results would suggest that the lake surface of the Gyirong Basin during the Late Miocene to Mid-Pliocene was 2.5±0.8 km and that the surrounding mountains exceeded 3.6±0.6 km, implying that the central Himalayas underwent a rapid uplift of ~1.5 km after the Mid-Pliocene.</p><p>GDGT-based paleotemperature reconstructions using MBT'<sub>5ME</sub> values show that the Xining Basin dropped in temperature by ~10°C during the ~10.5-8 Ma period, exceeding that in sea surface temperatures and low-altitude terrestrial temperatures during these periods. By combining these results with contemporaneous tectonic and sedimentary records, we infer that these cooling events signaled the regional uplift with the amplitude of ~1 km of the Xining basins. Our results support that the TP was still growing and uplifting substantially since the Late Miocene, which may provide new evidence for understanding the growth, expansion and uplift patterns of the TP.</p>

Solid sedimentation rates history of the Southern African continental margins: Implications for the uplift history of the South African Plateau

Terra Nova ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Baby ◽  
François Guillocheau ◽  
Jean Braun ◽  
Cécile Robin ◽  
Massimo Dall'Asta
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Continental Margins ◽  
Sedimentation Rates ◽  
The South ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uplift History ◽  
History Of The South

scholarly journals Neogene to Quaternary uplift history along the passive margin of the northeastern Arabian Peninsula, eastern Al Hajar Mountains, Oman

2018 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 418-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Moraetis ◽  
Frank Mattern ◽  
Andreas Scharf ◽  
Gianluca Frijia ◽  
Timothy M. Kusky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Outer Wall ◽  
Passive Margin ◽  
Arabian Plate ◽  
Makran Subduction Zone ◽  
Marine Terraces ◽  
Topographic Survey ◽  
Uplift Rates ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uplift History

AbstractThis work explores the uplift history of the best exposed marine terraces in the northeastern Arabian Peninsula (eastern Al Hajar Mountains). A multidisciplinary approach was employed, including a topographic survey, 14C dating, thin section studies, and scanning electron microscopy analyses. Six distinctive marine terraces with widths ranging from tenth of meters to kilometers and elevations from 5 to ~400 m were studied. These terraces record an along-strike heterogeneous uplift history, while they show temporally variable uplift rates ranging between 0.9 to 6.7 mm/yr, which correlates well with other published uplift rates of marine terraces of the eastern Arabian Peninsula. We attribute the variable uplift along strike of the terraces, to a combination of uplift mechanisms: (1) during early to mid-Miocene along deep-rooted reverse faults that bound large crustal-scale blocks, (2) Pliocene or post-Pliocene uplift on the outer wall of the forebulge of the lower Arabian Plate as it bends to enter the Zagros-Makran subduction zone, and (3) a possible slowdown of subduction for the past ~40 ka.

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