Apatite Fission Track Constraints on the Pattern of Faulting in the North Qilian Mountain

Qingyang Li; Baotian Pan; Xiaofei Hu; Zhenbo Hu; Fuqiang Li; Shunzhi Yang

doi:10.1007/s12583-013-0350-1

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Qingyang Li, Baotian Pan, Xiaofei Hu, Zhenbo Hu, Fuqiang Li, Shunzhi Yang. Apatite Fission Track Constraints on the Pattern of Faulting in the North Qilian Mountain. Journal of Earth Science, 2013, 24(4): 569-578. doi: 10.1007/s12583-013-0350-1

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Qingyang Li, Baotian Pan, Xiaofei Hu, Zhenbo Hu, Fuqiang Li, Shunzhi Yang. Apatite Fission Track Constraints on the Pattern of Faulting in the North Qilian Mountain. Journal of Earth Science, 2013, 24(4): 569-578. doi: 10.1007/s12583-013-0350-1

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Apatite Fission Track Constraints on the Pattern of Faulting in the North Qilian Mountain

doi: 10.1007/s12583-013-0350-1

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Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), Research School of Arid Environment & Climate Change, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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Sulige Gasfield Development Company, PCOC, Xi'an, 710018, China

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Corresponding author: Qingyang Li, liqy0518@foxmail.com
Received Date: 20 Dec 2012
Accepted Date: 25 Mar 2013
Publish Date: 01 Aug 2013

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The Qilian (祁连) Mountain is an active orogenic belt located at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. During the process of continuous convergence between Indian and Eurasian plates, the Qilian Mountain grow correspondingly by means of reaction of old faults and generation of new ones. Here we present apatite fission-track data along a river profile crossing three minor fault (the Minle (民乐)-Damaying (大马营) fault, the Huangcheng (皇城)-Taerzhuang (塔尔庄) fault and the Kangningqiao (康宁桥) fault) which compose the North Qilian fault (NQF) to test the timing and patterns of the fault activities. Apatite fission-track (AFT) results indicate that these minor faults experienced two active phases in the Cretaceous and the Oligocene-Miocene. Further research indicate that the initiation timing of faulting became younger northward in both active periods and the later phase probably more active than the former phase. These tectonic activities might be highly related to the docking of the Lhasa Block to the south in the Cretaceous and uplift and expansion of the Tibetan Plateau in the Cenozoic.
- North Qilian Mountain,
- AFT,
- fault activity

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