Regional Exhumation and Tectonic History of the Shanxi Rift and Taihangshan, North China

dc.contributor.authorClinkscales, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorKapp, Paul
dc.contributor.authorThomson, Stuart
dc.contributor.authorWang, Houqi
dc.contributor.authorLaskowski, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorOrme, Devon A.
dc.contributor.authorPullen, Alex
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-12T20:20:07Z
dc.date.available2022-09-12T20:20:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-03
dc.descriptionChristopher Clinkscales et al, 2021, Regional Exhumation and Tectonic History of the Shanxi Rift and Taihangshan, North China, Tectonics, 40, Citation number, 10.1029/2020TC006416. To view the published open abstract, go to https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006416en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study presents a comprehensive low-temperature thermochronometric data set from the Shanxi Rift, Taihangshan, and eastern Ordos block in North China, including new apatite fission track and apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He data and published apatite and zircon fission track and (U-Th-Sm)/He data. We use these data and new thermal history inversion models to reveal that the Shanxi Rift and Taihangshan experienced an increase in cooling rates between ca. 110–70 Ma and ca. 50–30 Ma. A preceding ca. 160–135 Ma cooling event is generally restricted to the western rift margin in the Lüliangshan and Hengshan. In contrast, the ca. 50–30 Ma cooling event was widespread and occurred coevally with the opening of the Bohai Basin and slip across the NNE-striking Eastern Taihangshan fault. In the southern rift zone, however, exhumation beginning ca. 50 Ma was likely associated with fault block uplift across the ESE–striking Qinling and Huashan faults, which accompanied the extensional opening of the Weihe Graben. Coeval fault slip along the NNE–striking Eastern Taihangshan faults and ESE–striking Qinling and Huashan faults was associated with NW-SE extension in North China related to oblique subduction of the Pacific plate under Eastern Asia and slow convergence rates. The Shanxi Rift is commonly attributed to Late Miocene and younger extension, but our new thermochronologic data do not precisely record the onset of rifting. However, our inversion models do suggest ≤∼50°C of Neogene–Quaternary cooling, consistent with ≤∼2 km of footwall uplift across most range-bounding faults.en_US
dc.identifier.citationClinkscales, C., Kapp, P., Thomson, S., Wang, H., Laskowski, A., Orme, D. A., & Pullen, A. (2021). Regional exhumation and tectonic history of the Shanxi Rift and Taihangshan, North China. Tectonics, 40, e2020TC006416.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0278-7407
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/17124
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.rightscopyright american geophysical union 2021en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://perma.cc/K6V9-42JXen_US
dc.subjectexhumation tectonic history North Chinaen_US
dc.titleRegional Exhumation and Tectonic History of the Shanxi Rift and Taihangshan, North Chinaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
mus.citation.extentfirstpage1en_US
mus.citation.extentlastpage36en_US
mus.citation.issue3en_US
mus.citation.journaltitleTectonicsen_US
mus.citation.volume40en_US
mus.data.thumbpage2en_US
mus.identifier.doi10.1029/2020TC006416en_US
mus.relation.collegeCollege of Letters & Scienceen_US
mus.relation.departmentEarth Sciences.en_US
mus.relation.universityMontana State University - Bozemanen_US

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