Home | Contact Us | Sitemap | 中文 | CAS | Director's Email
 
Location:Home > Papers > Recent Papers
New constraints on the late Quaternary landscape evolution of the eastern Tibetan Plateau from Be-10 and Al-26 in-situ cosmogenic nuclides TEXT SIZE: A A A
Based on Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide (TCN) constraints from depth profiles of one granitic regolith from Wumingshan and five fluvial terraces from Xianshuihe and Zagunao rivers, we discuss the timing of the last deglaciation, the landscape-scale denudation and fluvial incision rates across the eastern Tibetan Plateau, in relation to previous work. We present a three-dimensional-graph visualization approach and corresponding constraints to better assess the feasibility and applicability of cosmogenic nuclides depth profile dating. The exposure age (older than 19.4 ka) of the Wumingshan regolith corresponds to the retreat of the palaeo-Daocheng ice cap, which covered the Yidun terrane during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Most basin-wide denudation rate data in the eastern Tibetan Plateau are lower than 130 mm/ka (47%, n = 90), which is consistent with the Wumingshan regolith denudation rate (lower than 52.8 mm/ka), and thus indicate that the landscape-scale denudation has been stabilized after the last deglaciation. Considering the reduction of integrated bulk density due to the accumulation of lower density loess, we estimate mean exposure ages of Xianshuihe and Zagunao river terraces of 4.0 +/- 0.7 ka, 5.9 +/- 0.3 ka, 13.4 +/- 2.0 ka, and 16.6 +/- 1.4 ka. The observed increase in incision rate from 0.39 mm/yr over long timescale (similar to 600 ka) to 5.88 mm/yr over the last 15 ka at the Xianshuihe river site is probably due to the transition from glacial to interglacial climatic conditions. The fewer abandoned terraces along the Zagunao river after the Heinrich event 1 (H1) indicates that the climate change during the latest glacial-interglacial transition impacted less the landscape evolution in a relatively lower elevation area. Comparison with previously reported fluvial incision rates elsewhere across the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau indicates that incision rates are mainly influenced by abrupt climate change or intensified summer monsoon since the early Holocene, but probably controlled by regional tectonic uplift or fluvial headward retreat as the timescale increases. Overall, we propose a synthetic pattern of landscape evolution mainly dominated by long-term tectonic uplift together with fluvial headward erosion, episodically influenced by climatic change throughout the late Quaternary. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
 

Publication name

 QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 220 244-262; 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.07.020 SEP 15 2019

Author(s)

 Yang, Ye; Liu, Cong-Qiang; Van der Woerd, Jerome; Xu, Sheng; Cui, Li-Feng; Zhao, Zhi-Qi; Wang, Qi-Lian; Jia, Guo-Dong; Chabaux, Francois

Corresponding author(s) 

 LIU Congqiang1,2;XU Sheng1
 liucongqiang@vip.skleg.cn; sheng.xu@tju.edu.cn  
 1 Tianjin Univ, Inst Surface Earth Syst Sci, Tianjin 300072, Peoples R China.
 2. Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geochem, State Key Lab Environm Geochem, Guiyang 550081, Guizhou, Peoples R China 
 Chabaux, Francois
 fchabaux@unistra.fr  
 Univ Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR 7517, Lab Hydrol & Geochim Strasbourg LHyGeS, 1 Rue Blessig, F-67084 Strasbourg, France. 
 Van der Woerd, Jerome
 jerome.vanderwoerd@unistra.fr  
 Univ Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR 7516, IPGS, 5 Rue Rene Descartes, F-67084 Strasbourg, France.

View here for the details 

Copyright © Institute Of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences All Rights Reserved.
Address: 99 West Lincheng Road, Guanshanhu District, Guiyang, Guizhou Province 550081, P.R.China
Tel: +86-851-85895239 Fax: +86-851-85895239 Email: web_en@mail.gyig.ac.cn