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LUO Meng, ZHU Wen-bin, ZHENG Bi-hai, ZHU Xiao-qing, 2012. Mesozoic-Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Kuqa Basin: Evidence from Apatite Fission-Track Data. Earth Science, 37(5): 893-902. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2012.098
Citation: LUO Meng, ZHU Wen-bin, ZHENG Bi-hai, ZHU Xiao-qing, 2012. Mesozoic-Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Kuqa Basin: Evidence from Apatite Fission-Track Data. Earth Science, 37(5): 893-902. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2012.098

Mesozoic-Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Kuqa Basin: Evidence from Apatite Fission-Track Data

doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2012.098
  • Received Date: 2012-05-19
    Available Online: 2021-11-10
  • Publish Date: 2012-09-15
  • Fourteen samples were collected from the Kuqa River section for apatite fission track analysis in order to investigate the thermal history of the Kuqa Basin and its sedimentary provenance. By comparing the apparent ages of samples with the related strata ages, the samples can be divided into two groups: the annealed group and the detrital group (unreset samples).The AFT ages become younger from 136 Ma to 93.7 Ma from the Tianshan Mountain to the Kuqa Basin, probably recording a basin-ward propagation of the thrust-fold belt. Samples 09dk-6, 09dk-7, 09dk-8 and 09dk-11 failed the X2 test likely due to the subsequent tectonic deformation. The youngest ages extracted from these samples probably record the latest activities of the Kuruli Syncline, Jiesidelike Anticline and the A'ge Fault at 74.4 Ma, 24.2 Ma and 50.8 Ma, respectively. The detrital samples have three peak ages at 250 Ma, 160 Ma and 100 Ma respectively. Thermal history modeling reveals four periods of denudation at 250 Ma, 160 Ma, 100 Ma and 20 Ma in the Kuqa basin and the Tianshan Mountains. The multi-stage denudation is linked to far-field effects resulted from the collision and accretion of terranes along the southern Asian continental margin.

     

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