Research Paper GEOSPHERE Jurassic sedimentation in the south-central Qiangtang terrane reveals successive terrane collisions in central Tibet 1, 2 1 3 4 GEOSPHERE, v. 15, no. 2 Lin Li *, Carmala N. Garzione , Majie Fan , Xiaowei Li , and Xiangzhong Li 1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA 2Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01649.1 3State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China 4Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710075, China 10 figures; 1 set of supplemental files CORRESPONDENCE:
[email protected] ABSTRACT the Tibetan Plateau, especially of its southern and central parts (England and Searle, 1986; Murphy et al., 1997; Kapp et al., 2005, 2007b). The collision be- CITATION: Li, L., Garzione, C.N., Fan, M.J., Li, X.W., Our limited knowledge of Mesozoic tectonism in the Tibetan Plateau has tween the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes along the Bangong-Nujiang suture and Li, X.Z., 2019, Jurassic sedimentation in the south-central Qiangtang terrane reveals successive hindered understanding of its geologic evolution. This study uses zircon U-Pb (shortened to Bangong suture hereafter; Fig. 1) is one of the most prominent terrane collisions in central Tibet: Geosphere, v. 15, geochronology to refine regional chronostratigraphy and infer the Jurassic tectonic events that occurred in the Mesozoic history of the Tibetan Plateau no. 2, p. 433–449, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01649.1.