Palaeomagnetic and geochronologic results from lower cretaceous volcanics of the western Qiangtang terrane and implications for the Lhasa-Qiangtang collision
Yabo Zhang, Weiwei Bian, Jiahui Ma, Suo Wang, Xianwei Jiao, Jiacheng Liang, Siqi Wang, Xiaolin Li, Jikai Ding, Hanqing Zhao, Haiyan Li, Huaichun Wu, Yiming Ma, Tianshui Yang · 2025
Read Palaeomagnetic and geochronologic results from lower cretaceous volcanics of the western Qiangtang terrane and implications for the Lhasa-Qiangtang collision by Yabo Zhang, Weiwei Bian, Jiahui Ma, Suo Wang, Xianwei Jiao, Jiacheng Liang, Siqi Wang, Xiaolin Li, Jikai Ding, Hanqing Zhao, Haiyan Li, Huaichun Wu, Yiming Ma, Tianshui Yang (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12749633.txt.
Description
Yabo Zhang and co-authors wrote a 2025 paper on when two blocks of the Tibetan Plateau collided. The plateau rose as crust blocks merged, and the timing of the Lhasa and Qiangtang blocks' meeting is hotly debated. The team read the magnetic memory and the age of volcanic rocks in the western Qiangtang block.
Their dating puts the rocks in the early part of the Cretaceous period, about one hundred thirteen to one hundred nine million years old, not the older age once assigned. The magnetic data place the block at about twenty-three degrees north latitude then. Comparing that spot with the Lhasa block's position shows the two had already converged by that era. Such fixes anchor the story of Asia's great mountain belt.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yabo Zhang, Weiwei Bian, Jiahui Ma, Suo Wang, Xianwei Jiao, Jiacheng Liang, Siqi Wang, Xiaolin Li, Jikai Ding, Hanqing Zhao, Haiyan Li, Huaichun Wu, Yiming Ma, Tianshui Yang |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |