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1. The underestimated role of tectonics in the mid-Late Cretaceous desertification in SE Asia.

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Licheng Wang, Garzanti, Eduardo, Fulong Cai, Jian Zhang, Lijian Shen, Nulay, Pradit, and Siritongkham, Nuchit

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*DESERTIFICATION, *SEDIMENTARY rocks, *CLIMATE change, *IGNEOUS rocks, *PROVENANCE (Geology), *ATMOSPHERIC circulation, *TOPOGRAPHY
Abstract

The relative roles of tectonics and climate change in global and regional desertification are not well constrained. Previous studies have emphasized the role played by climate change as a dominant cause of southeastern (SE) Asia desertification during the mid-Late Cretaceous. The effect of early uplift of the Tibetan Plateau prior to the collision between Eurasia and India on regional desertification remains poorly understood. We present a comprehensive set of provenance data on two aeolian sequences deposited in the Simao Basin and Khorat Plateau desert environments adjacent to southeast Tibet. Our provenance results suggest that the aeolian sandstones of the Pashahe Formation in the Simao Basin were largely recycled from exposed sedimentary rocks of the Songpan-Garze terrane, Southern Qiangtang terranes, and northern Yangtze Block with minor contributions from the magmatic rocks of the Tengchong and Southern Qiangtang terranes. Combined with other evidence, provenance results indicate the source areas started to grow and to be rapidly unroofed and determined the birth of the transcontinental southerly flowing paleo-river, which carried the sand to be stored. In contrast, the Phu Thok aeolian sandstones in the Khorat Plateau were predominantly sourced from the exposed Sibumasu igneous rocks together with recycled detritus in the Sukhothai Arc terrane, which was possibly transported by a local river. Hence, our thesis is that elevated topography caused by the closure of the Bangong-Nujiang Mesotethys profoundly affected the atmospheric circulation and drainage development, leading to mid-Late Cretaceous desertification across SE Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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2. Detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf analyses of Silurian–Devonian sediments in the Sukhothai Terrane, northern Thailand: implications for the Mid-Paleozoic arc belt.

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Nie, Xiaomei, Feng, Qinglai, Zi, Jianwei, Gan, Zhengqin, Metcalfe, Ian, Chonglakmani, Chongpan, Monjai, Denchok, Zhao, Tianyu, Ren, Jianye, Khanmanee, Jongkonnee, and Nulay, Pradit

Subjects
*PROVENANCE (Geology), *ZIRCON, *FLYSCH, *SEDIMENT analysis, *TRACE element analysis, *BACK-arc basins, *SEDIMENTARY rocks
Abstract

The Sukhothai Terrane in northern Thailand consists of continental basement and a Permo-Triassic magmatic arc related to the subduction of the main Palaeo-Tethys Ocean. The Donchai Group represents the oldest sedimentary sequence of the Sukhothai Terrane and consists mainly of meta-sandstone, quartzo-feldspathic schist, phyllite and silty slate. We present new detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology, Lu–Hf isotope data and geochemical data for the sedimentary rocks of the Donchai Group to elucidate the depositional age, provenance and nature of the group. The youngest detrital zircon ages (433–403 Ma) suggest that the Donchai Group accumulated between 433 and 368 Ma, revealing Silurian–Devonian arc magmatic rocks on the western margin of the Sukhothai Terrane. Sediments of the Donchai Group were sourced from both the continental basement and a Silurian–Early Devonian magmatic arc, suggesting a depositional setting on the continental slope of a back-arc basin along the western flank of the Sukhothai Terrane. The Silurian–Devonian arc belt in SW China probably extends to the Chiang Rai region to the west of the Sukhothai Terrane, northern Thailand, revealing the northwards subduction of the Proto-Tethys Ocean along the western Simao and Sukhothai margin during the mid-Paleozoic. The inferred arc and back-arc configuration of the Proto-Tethys Ocean in northern Thailand is comparable with that recently established in Yunnan, SW China. Supplementary material: Detrital zircon U–Pb ages and trace element analyses, zircon in-situ Lu–Hf isotopic compositions and whole-rock geochemical data are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6858373 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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