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Insights into the evolution of the Hindu Kush–Kohistan–Karakoram from modern river sand detrital geo- and thermochronological studies

View ORCID ProfileGuangsheng Zhuang, Yani Najman, Yuntao Tian, View ORCID ProfileAndrew Carter, Lorenzo Gemignani, View ORCID ProfileJan Wijbrans, M. Qasim Jan and M. Asif Khan
Journal of the Geological Society, 175, 934-948, 30 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-007
Guangsheng Zhuang
1Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
2Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
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3School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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4Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, UK
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Lorenzo Gemignani
5Department of Isotope Geology, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 Amsterdam, Netherlands
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5Department of Isotope Geology, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 Amsterdam, Netherlands
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M. Qasim Jan
6National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar 25130, Pakistan
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6National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar 25130, Pakistan
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The Hindu Kush–Kohistan–Karakoram region is critical to understanding the long-term accretion history of the south Asian margin pre- and post-India–Asia collision and the impact of these collisions on the development of high topography. However, knowledge about this region remains incomplete owing to sparse studies. Here, we present a study comprising detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology, detrital muscovite 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and numerical modelling on 40Ar/39Ar dates. The study identifies zircon U–Pb age peaks at 200, 110–130, 60–80 and 28–40 Ma, supporting the polyphase collisions and crustal growth in the south Asian margin. The modelling study reveals fast cooling–erosion at 115–129, 69–71, 27–35 and <8 Ma, synchronous with collision-related crustal growth, indicating the significant impact of accretion both prior to and post-India–Asia collision. This study, along with studies in eastern Karakoram, reveals along-strike variations in erosion and exhumation with young (since late Miocene) intense erosion focusing on the east–central Karakoram. We suggest that this east–west spatial variation in exhumation may have been associated with more intense crustal shortening, and thus the greater crustal thickness, topographic relief and altitude observed in the eastern compared with the western Karakoram.

Supplementary material: Detrital zircon U–Pb ages, detrital muscovite single-crystal 40Ar/39Ar ages and modelling results are available at: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4124573

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Insights into the evolution of the Hindu Kush–Kohistan–Karakoram from modern river sand detrital geo- and thermochronological studies

Guangsheng Zhuang, Yani Najman, Yuntao Tian, Andrew Carter, Lorenzo Gemignani, Jan Wijbrans, M. Qasim Jan and M. Asif Khan
Journal of the Geological Society, 175, 934-948, 30 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-007
Guangsheng Zhuang
1Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
2Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
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3School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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4Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, UK
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Journal of the Geological Society, 175, 934-948, 30 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-007
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