TY - JOUR A1 - Thompson, Jessica A. A1 - Chen, Jie A1 - Yang, Huili A1 - Li, Tao A1 - Bookhagen, Bodo A1 - Burbank, Douglas T1 - Coarse- versus fine-grain quartz OSL and cosmogenic Be-10 dating of deformed fluvial terraces on the northeast Pamir margin, northwest China JF - Quaternary geochronology : the international research and review journal on advances in quaternary dating techniques N2 - Along the NE Pamir margin, flights of late Quaternary fluvial terraces span actively deforming fault-related folds. We present detailed results on two terraces dated using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and cosmogenic radionuclide Be-10 (CRN) techniques. Quartz OSL dating of two different grain sizes (4-11 mu m and 90-180 mu m) revealed the fine-grain quartz fraction may overestimate the terrace ages by up to a factor of ten. Two-mm, small-aliquot, coarse-grain quartz OSL ages, calculated using the minimum age model, yielded stratigraphically consistent ages within error and dated times of terrace deposition to similar to 9 and similar to 16 ka. We speculate that, in this arid environment, fine-grain samples can be transported and deposited in single, turbid, and (sometimes) night-time floods that prevent thorough bleaching and, thereby, can lead to relatively large residual OSL signals. In contrast, sand in the fluvial system is likely to have a much longer residence time during transport, thereby providing greater opportunities for thorough bleaching. CRN Be-10 depth profiles date the timing of terrace abandonment to similar to 8 and similar to 14 ka: ages that generally agree with the coarse-grain quartz OSL ages. Our new terrace age of similar to 13-14 ka is broadly consistent with other terraces in the region that indicate terrace deposition and subsequent abandonment occurred primarily during glacial-interglacial transitions, thereby suggesting a climatic control on the formation of these terraces on the margins of the Tarim Basin. Furthermore, tectonic shortening rates calculated from these deformed terraces range from similar to 1.2 to similar to 4.6 mm/a and, when combined with shortening rates from other structures in the region, illuminate the late Quaternary basinward migration of deformation to faults and folds along the Pamir-Tian Shan collisional interface. KW - Tectonic geomorphology KW - Deformation KW - Quaternary terraces KW - Pamir KW - Tian shan Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.01.002 SN - 1871-1014 SN - 1878-0350 VL - 46 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thompson, Jessica A. A1 - Burbank, Douglas W. A1 - Li, Tao A1 - Chen, Jie A1 - Bookhagen, Bodo T1 - Late Miocene northward propagation of the northeast Pamir thrust system, northwest China JF - Tectonics N2 - Piggyback basins on the margins of growing orogens commonly serve as sensitive recorders of the onset of thrust deformation and changes in source areas. The Bieertuokuoyi piggyback basin, located in the hanging wall of the Pamir Frontal Thrust, provides an unambiguous record of the outward growth of the northeast Pamir margin in northwest China from the Miocene through the Quaternary. To reconstruct the deformation along the margin, we synthesized structural mapping, stratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and cosmogenic burial dating of basin fill and growth strata. The Bieertuokuoyi basin records the initiation of the Pamir Frontal Thrust and the Takegai Thrust similar to 5-6Ma, as well as clast provenance and paleocurrent changes resulting from the Pliocene-to-Recent uplift and exhumation of the Pamir to the south. Our results show that coeval deformation was accommodated on the major structures on the northeast Pamir margin throughout the Miocene to Recent. Furthermore, our data support a change in the regional kinematics around the Miocene-Pliocene boundary (similar to 5-6Ma). Rapid exhumation of NE Pamir extensional domes, coupled with cessation of the Kashgar-Yecheng Transfer System on the eastern margin of the Pamir, accelerated the outward propagation of the northeastern Pamir margin and the southward propagation of the Kashi-Atushi fold-and-thrust belt in the southern Tian Shan. This coeval deformation signifies the coupling of the Pamir and Tarim blocks and the transfer of shortening north to the Pamir frontal faults and across the quasi-rigid Tarim Basin to the southern Tian Shan Kashi-Atushi fold-and-thrust system. KW - Pamir KW - thrust tectonics KW - piggyback basin KW - growth strata KW - landscape evolution KW - cosmogenic burial dating Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/2014TC003690 SN - 0278-7407 SN - 1944-9194 VL - 34 IS - 3 SP - 510 EP - 534 PB - American Geophysical Union CY - Washington ER - TY - GEN A1 - Braun, David R. A1 - Aldeias, Vera A1 - Archer, Will A1 - Arrowsmith, J. Ramon A1 - Baraki, Niguss A1 - Campisano, Christopher J. A1 - Deino, Alan L. A1 - DiMaggio, Erin N. A1 - Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume A1 - Engda, Blade A1 - Feary, David A. A1 - Garello, Dominique I. A1 - Kerfelew, Zenash A1 - McPherron, Shannon P. A1 - Patterson, David B. A1 - Reeves, Jonathan S. A1 - Thompson, Jessica C. A1 - Reed, Kaye E. T1 - Reply to Sahle and Gossa: Technology and geochronology at the earliest known Oldowan site at Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia T2 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911952116 SN - 0027-8424 N1 - Letter VL - 116 IS - 41 SP - 20261 EP - 20262 PB - National Acad. of Sciences CY - Washington ER -