Alexandra E. Pye, K. Hodges, Todd A. Ehlers, M. V. van Soest, Christopher S. McDonald, Basant Bhandari
Understanding how the South Tibetan Detachment System (STDS) evolved through time and space is necessary for understanding the evolution of the Himalayan orogen. We present new (with previously published) thermochronologic results from a transect in the footwall and ductile shear zone of the basal structure of the STDS in the Kali Gandaki region: the Annapurna detachment. The exhumation history is interpreted from observations using 1D thermal-kinematic models that invert for the exhumation rate of samples. Recently published data suggested that high-temperature slip on the detachment persisted until at least ca. 12 Ma, more recently than is commonly assumed for STDS deformation. Our new data and modelling support those findings and suggest that the cessation of slip coincided with a dramatic, > 50% decrease in the exhumation rate of the shear zone and its footwall at ca. 12-10 Ma. Exhumation rates remained low until ca. 3 Ma, after which they increased to levels comparable with those that characterised STDS activity. Plausible causes of this late pulse of exhumation include an intensification of the Asian Winter monsoon and establishment of today's Indian Summer Monsoon, glaciation, and/or an internal structural reorganisation of the Himalayan orogenic wedge driving localised rock uplift in the hinterland. Supplementary material: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6949467
{"title":"Constraining the exhumation history of the Greater Himalayan sequence, Kali Gandaki, Central Nepal","authors":"Alexandra E. Pye, K. Hodges, Todd A. Ehlers, M. V. van Soest, Christopher S. McDonald, Basant Bhandari","doi":"10.1144/jgs2023-100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023-100","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how the South Tibetan Detachment System (STDS) evolved through time and space is necessary for understanding the evolution of the Himalayan orogen. We present new (with previously published) thermochronologic results from a transect in the footwall and ductile shear zone of the basal structure of the STDS in the Kali Gandaki region: the Annapurna detachment. The exhumation history is interpreted from observations using 1D thermal-kinematic models that invert for the exhumation rate of samples. Recently published data suggested that high-temperature slip on the detachment persisted until at least ca. 12 Ma, more recently than is commonly assumed for STDS deformation. Our new data and modelling support those findings and suggest that the cessation of slip coincided with a dramatic, > 50% decrease in the exhumation rate of the shear zone and its footwall at ca. 12-10 Ma. Exhumation rates remained low until ca. 3 Ma, after which they increased to levels comparable with those that characterised STDS activity. Plausible causes of this late pulse of exhumation include an intensification of the Asian Winter monsoon and establishment of today's Indian Summer Monsoon, glaciation, and/or an internal structural reorganisation of the Himalayan orogenic wedge driving localised rock uplift in the hinterland.\u0000 \u0000 Supplementary material:\u0000 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6949467\u0000","PeriodicalId":17320,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geological Society","volume":"20 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138977160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Lu, Cuiping Zhao, Jinyu Zhang, Qincai Wang, Xiao Sun, Fang Xu, Haoyue Sun
Area of active tectonics hosts many active faults and frequently experiences moderate to large earthquakes. The possibility of devastating earthquakes makes the development of major infrastructure projects in these areas risky. World-class large-scale step hydroelectric projects were built along the Jinsha River, such as the Xiangjiaba, Xiluodu, Baihetan, and Wudongde reservoirs in the Daliang Mountains of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Using the SKUA-GoCAD modeling platform, we created a thorough three-dimensional (3D) model of the active faults. Regional geological information, historical strong earthquake catalogs, small earthquakes with fine displacement, and 3D seismic tomography are all integrated in this model. The Mabian-Yanjin fault belt consists of a number of discontinuous faults that are either exposed on the surface or concealed, according to the 3D fault model. Some destructive earthquakes, including two enormous M 7 and many moderate earthquakes, have occurred along this fault belt. Some pre-existing thrust faults, together with numerous immature faults in specific areas, may have been reactivated and changed into strike-slip faults. The Jinsha River basin's seismic and geological concerns must be carefully considered given the existence of such intricate fault networks and seismic activity. Supplementary material: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6949201
{"title":"3D fault model and seismotectonics indicate the potential seismic risk in the Daliang Mountains, southeastern Tibetan Plateau","authors":"R. Lu, Cuiping Zhao, Jinyu Zhang, Qincai Wang, Xiao Sun, Fang Xu, Haoyue Sun","doi":"10.1144/jgs2023-136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023-136","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Area of active tectonics hosts many active faults and frequently experiences moderate to large earthquakes. The possibility of devastating earthquakes makes the development of major infrastructure projects in these areas risky. World-class large-scale step hydroelectric projects were built along the Jinsha River, such as the Xiangjiaba, Xiluodu, Baihetan, and Wudongde reservoirs in the Daliang Mountains of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Using the SKUA-GoCAD modeling platform, we created a thorough three-dimensional (3D) model of the active faults. Regional geological information, historical strong earthquake catalogs, small earthquakes with fine displacement, and 3D seismic tomography are all integrated in this model. The Mabian-Yanjin fault belt consists of a number of discontinuous faults that are either exposed on the surface or concealed, according to the 3D fault model. Some destructive earthquakes, including two enormous\u0000 M\u0000 7 and many moderate earthquakes, have occurred along this fault belt. Some pre-existing thrust faults, together with numerous immature faults in specific areas, may have been reactivated and changed into strike-slip faults. The Jinsha River basin's seismic and geological concerns must be carefully considered given the existence of such intricate fault networks and seismic activity.\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Supplementary material:\u0000 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6949201\u0000","PeriodicalId":17320,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geological Society","volume":"44 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139007126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dominique Cluzel, A. Montanini, A. Secchiari, E. Ferrari, M. Heizler, F. Jourdan, S. Meffre, R. Zhou, C. Teyssier
New Caledonia Ophiolite is crosscut by coarse to medium grained pyroxenites and hornblende gabbros/diorites dykes intruded between 55.5Ma and 50Ma (U-Pb zircon and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar hornblende), while finer-grained dolerites of tholeiitic affinity are younger (50-47 Ma). Production of hornblende-gabbros/diorites was modelled by moderate degree (20-40%) of partial melting of the HT amphibolites of the metamorphic sole. End-member compositions, hornblendites and anorthosites, resulted from solid-state phase segregation of crystal mushes within tectonically active magmatic conduits. Cascade reactions of slab melts with mantle wedge peridotites successively formed clinoenstatite-boninite magmas, which fed gabbronorite cumulate lenses at the mantle-crust transition, in turn clinoenstatite-boninite melts reacted with peridotites to form websterites. The youngest magmas of tholeiitic affinity, appeared about 6 Ma after subduction inception when the cooler subducting slab plunged more steeply. Incipient slab retreat allowed corner flow, triggering low pressure hydrous melting of the uplifted asthenosphere . The early stages of forearc magmatism were closely associated with transcurrent shear zones, which recorded oblique subduction inception. The lower Eocene tectonic and magmatic features of the New Caledonia ophiolite witness the existence of a north- or northeast-dipping hot (forced) subduction zone in the Southwest Pacific, which appears notably distinct from the slightly younger west-dipping Izu-Bonin-Marianna cold (spontaneous) subduction system. Thematic collection: This article is part of the Ophiolites, melanges and blueschists collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/topic/collections/ophiolites-melanges-and-blueschists Supplementary material: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6949265
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