Late Cenozoic exhumation in the eastern Junggar Basin: Evidence from zircon (U-Th)/He ages of combustion metamorphic rocks
Bin Chen, Pan Liu, Yan Dong, Changjuan Feng, Zhuang Zhao, Chaoqun Yang, Yixin Dong, Hu Li, Hu Li, Hu Li, Hu Li · 2026
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Description
Bin Chen and co-authors date the uplift of mountains near China's Junggar Basin in a 2026 study. Rocks around the basin rose in response to the far-off collision of India with Asia, but pinning down the latest stage of that rise is hard with standard dating. The team turns to an odd clock: rocks baked when buried coal seams, lifted near the surface, caught fire on their own.
They mapped the baked rocks, read their minerals, and dated zircon grains with a helium method. Three grains cluster at a young age in the middle Pleistocene, which the team takes as the main burning time. Two older grains are read with care as leftovers. The pattern matches the basin rim's late rise.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bin Chen, Pan Liu, Yan Dong, Changjuan Feng, Zhuang Zhao, Chaoqun Yang, Yixin Dong, Hu Li, Hu Li, Hu Li, Hu Li |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 94 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |