{"id":1973,"date":"2026-07-21T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/southeast-tibet-grew-in-pulses-not-all-at-once\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:47:08","slug":"southeast-tibet-grew-in-pulses-not-all-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/southeast-tibet-grew-in-pulses-not-all-at-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Tibet Grew in Pulses, Not All at Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/eos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2025TC009246RR_Figure_9-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"Map showing study region.\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-secondary-variation-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eos.org\/editor-highlights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Editors\u2019 Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU\u2019s journal editors.<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source: <em><em>Tectonics<\/em><\/em><\/h5>\n<p>The gently sloping southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau preserves an important record of when and how the plateau expanded, yet its growth history remains contentious. By dating the cooling histories of minerals from the northern Jinsha River fold-and-thrust belt (a region where rock layers were compressed, folded, and thrust over one another), <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2025TC009246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shen et al. [2026]<\/a> identify three episodes of accelerated exhumation, when tectonic uplift and surface erosion brought deeply buried rocks toward the surface: approximately 80\u201368 million years ago, 38\u201334 million years ago, and from about 19 million years ago to the present.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest episode coincided with sediment accumulation in the adjacent Gonjo Basin, linking early mountain building to sedimentary basin development. The second episode records renewed compression along the Jinsha suture, a former tectonic plate boundary, and forms part of a broader southeastward propagation of crustal shortening across northern Southeast Tibet. The youngest episode primarily reflects incision by the Jinsha River, although continued fault activity may also have contributed to exhumation. Together, these results indicate that Southeast Tibet grew through multiple tectonic pulses over the past ~80 million years, rather than predominantly during a single phase driven by the southeastward flow of weak lower-crustal rock and consequent surface uplift.<\/p>\n<p><em>Citation: Shen, X., Liu-Zeng, J., Shen, X., van der Beek, P., Cao, K., Xing, Y., &amp; Zeng, X. (2026). Multi-stage tectonic growth of Southeast Tibet since the late cretaceous: Insights from the Jinsha suture zone in the three rivers region. <\/em>Tectonics<em>, 45, e2025TC009246. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2025TC009246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2025TC009246<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014Djordje Grujic, Editor, <em>Tectonics<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Text \u00a9 2026. The authors.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC BY-NC-ND 3.0<\/a><br \/>Except where otherwise noted, images are subject to copyright. Any reuse without express permission from the copyright owner is prohibited.<\/h6>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/eos.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors\u2019 Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU\u2019s journal editors. 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