The collision between India and Asia is marked by the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone, which can be traced from Tibet into northwest Yunnan. The suture zone provides a record of the subduction of Neotethyan oceanic lithosphere beneath the Lhasa Block, creating the Gangdese magmatic belt, prior to the India–Asia collision. This paper reports petrological, zircon U–Pb, and whole-rock elemental and isotope

The affinity and tectonic setting of the Qinfang basin have long been an enigma. Here we conduct detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope analysis of Lower-Middle Devonian to Middle Jurassic samples from the basin. Along with published age data and paleontology from the basin and its east and west sides, this study constrains the sediment provenance and tectonic setting of the basin. Sandstones

In Kashmir Himalaya, the Medlicott-Wadia Thrust is a main active fault responsible for the crustal accretionary prism building during the Late Quaternary. Because of the long seismic silence during the last five centuries, it is a key structure to be studied in order to estimate the regional seismic hazard. In the Riasi area, the analysis of two paleoseismological trenches allowed us identifying and

Magnetic susceptibility (χ) of loess-paleosol sequences on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) has been widely used as a proxy for East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) precipitation variability. Such records typically show strong climate forcing in the ~100 ka orbital eccentricity band, but exhibit weak precessional (~23 ka) forcing relative to that seen in oxygen isotopes from marine sediments. This is puzzling