Large rivers and orogens: The evolution of the Yarlung Tsangpo–Irrawaddy system and the eastern Himalayan syntaxis

Robinson, R. W.; Brezina, Cynthia; Parrish, Randall R.; Horstwood, Matthew; Oo, Nay Win; Bird, Michael I.; Thein, Myint; Walters, Abigail; Oliver, Graham; Zaw, Khin

doi:10.1016/j.gr.2013.07.002

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“…Previous studies have shown that the middle Yangtze River flowed westward in to paleo-Red River (Clift et al, 2006;Yan et al, 2012). The river systems in East Tibet have gone through major adjustment during late Oligocene to early Miocene (Clift et al, 2006;Zheng et al, 2013;Robinson et al, 2014). The Nd isotopic composition of sediments from the Hanoi Basin and zircon age spectra from the downstream of Yangtze River show the establishment of modern drainage systems in East Tibet by ca.24 Ma (Clift et al, 2006;Zheng et al, 2013).…”

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“…The interaction among tectonics, landforms and drainage systems in East Asia has been the focus of several recent studies (Clark et al, 2004(Clark et al, , 2005Clift et al, 2006;Yan et al, 2011;Zheng et al, 2013;Robinson et al, 2014). The uplift of Tibet Plateau and the opening of marginal sea are among the major tectonic events in East Tibet area.…”

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“…The evidence of Nd isotope and the detrital zircon grains from the Hanoi Basin, Central Myanmar and lower Yangtze suggest that the establishment of the modern drainage systems in East Tibet prior to 23 Ma (Clift et al, 2006;Zheng et al, 2013;Robinson et al, 2014), even though some workers consider that the Yangtze River is younger than 5 Ma (Li et al, 2001;Yang and Youn, 2007;Jia et al, 2010). However, the evolutionary features of river systems in southeast China, such as the Minjiang River ( Fig.…”

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“…Large-scale reorganization of drainage systems is well documented across much of East and Southeast Asia (Clift et al 2006;Zheng et al 2013;Robinson et al 2013) and because this process of drainage capture is driven largely by topographic uplift of the Tibetan Plateau this means that the tectonics of the continental interior is guiding where large sediment masses are being deposited and preserved on the continental margins, with some additional control exercised by the location and timing of basin formation around the continental margins that generate suitable sediment traps. As a result topographic uplift in Eastern Tibet and the resultant reorganization of drainage patterns will also have an effect on the subsequent crustal flow and structure of rifted passive margins around East Asia.…”

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Coupled onshore erosion and offshore sediment loading as causes of lower crust flow on the margins of South China Sea

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2015

Geosci. Lett.

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Hot, thick continental crust is susceptible to ductile flow within the middle and lower crust where quartz controls mechanical behavior. Reconstruction of subsidence in several sedimentary basins around the South China Sea, most notably the Baiyun Sag, suggests that accelerated phases of basement subsidence are associated with phases of fast erosion onshore and deposition of thick sediments offshore. Working together these two processes induce pressure gradients that drive flow of the ductile crust from offshore towards the continental interior after the end of active extension, partly reversing the flow that occurs during continental breakup. This has the effect of thinning the continental crust under super-deep basins along these continental margins after active extension has finished. This is a newly recognized form of climate-tectonic coupling, similar to that recognized in orogenic belts, especially the Himalaya. Climatically modulated surface processes, especially involving the monsoon in Southeast Asia, affects the crustal structure offshore passive margins, resulting in these "load-flow basins". This further suggests that reorganization of continental drainage systems may also have a role in governing margin structure. If some crustal thinning occurs after the end of active extension this has implications for the thermal history of hydrocarbon-bearing basins throughout the area where application of classical models results in over predictions of heatflow based on observed accommodation space.

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“…Geological records indicate that around the Oligocene/Miocene boundary (~23 Mya), the rapid extrusion of Indochina and the cumulative Cenozoic deformation of South-East Asia caused by underthrusting of the Indian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate, resulted in intense orogeny in South-East Tibet (Zhang et al 2013). In particular in the Early Miocene (~20 Mya), driven by rapid deformation of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis (Robinson et al 2014), large modifications were induced in the river systems of this region (e.g. Salween, Mekong, Yangtze and Yarlung Tsangpo-Irrawaddy river: Zhang and Hu 2012).…”

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Preliminary molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the monobasic subfamily Calinaginae (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)

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Cesaroni³

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Calinaga (Moore 1857) is a rare and enigmatic Asian butterfly genus whose phylogenetic placement within Nymphalidae has only recently been established. The evolutionary history of Calinaga species however remains unknown. Here we explore the phylogeography of Calinaga using 1310 bp of sequence data from two molecular (mtDNA barcode and ribosomal protein S5 nuclear gene) and two morphological traits (genitalia and wing pattern). Within the proposed phylogenetic framework, we estimate the ages of divergence within the genus and reconstruct their historical biogeography. We found strong support for monophyly of Calinaga and support for the most recent accepted species in the genus. Our results indicate that the common ancestor of Calinaga first split in the Eocene (~43 million years ago) in southern China, probably as a consequence of geological and environmental impacts of the collision of the Indian and Asian subcontinents. In the Oligocene/Miocene, the extrusion of Indochina from the continent caused further dramatic orogenetic changes that promoted isolation and speciation events within the genus while Pleistocene climatic changes also influenced the distribution and further speciation. A dispersal-vicariance analysis suggests that vicariance events have played a far more important role than dispersal in the distribution of extant species.

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Large rivers and orogens: The evolution of the Yarlung Tsangpo–Irrawaddy system and the eastern Himalayan syntaxis

Cited by 142 publications

References 66 publications

Topographic architecture and drainage reorganization in Southeast China: Zircon U-Pb chronology and Hf isotope evidence from Taiwan

Topographic architecture and drainage reorganization in Southeast China: Zircon U-Pb chronology and Hf isotope evidence from Taiwan

Coupled onshore erosion and offshore sediment loading as causes of lower crust flow on the margins of South China Sea

Preliminary molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the monobasic subfamily Calinaginae (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)

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