Lower-altitude of the Himalayas before the mid-Pliocene as constrained by hydrological and thermal conditions

doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116422

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	Lower-altitude of the Himalayas before the mid-Pliocene as constrained by hydrological and thermal conditions
	Chen, Chihao 1,2,3; Bai, Yan 1,2; Fang, Xiaomin 1,2,3; Xu, Qiang 4,5; Zhang, Tao 1,2; Deng, Tao3,6,7 ; He, Jiankun 1,2; Chen, Qinghu 1,2,3
	2020-09-01
发表期刊	EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
ISSN	0012-821X
卷号	545 期号:1 页码:11
摘要	Contradictory paleoaltitudinal histories of the Himalayas arrived at using isotopic paleoaltimeters and ecological evidences have constrained our further exploration of the geodynamic mechanisms driving the India-Eurasia collision and the resultant interaction between tectonic uplift and climate change. In this study, based on evidence derived from glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs), the hydrogen isotopes of leaf wax n-alkanes (delta H-2(alk)), we estimated the paleoaltitude of the Gyirong Basin (GB), central Himalayas, for the 7.0 similar to 3.2 Ma period. The paleoaltitudinal reconstruction based on delta H-2(alk) values (similar to 6.3km above sea level (asl)) was consistent with that of the revised delta O-18(c) values (similar to 5.6 km asl), and higher than the present-day altitude (similar to 4 km asl). The reconstructed paleotemperatures based on brGDGTs (14.2 +/- 4.5 degrees C for the lake surface; 7.5 +/- 3.3 degrees C for terrestrial organic matter source areas) were consistent with the ecological evidences, indicating a low-altitude paleoenvironment. This proves that a systemic bias exists between the isotopic paleoaltimeters and the ecological evidence, rather than a problem with specific indicators. The reconstructed paleoaltitudinal differences between the delta H-2(alk) and delta O-18(c) values are similar to those of brGDGT reconstructions, seemingly representing the paleoaltitudinal differences between the source areas of terrestrial organic matter inputs and the lake surface, and suggesting that the isotopic palaeoaltimeters do not specifically record the higher-altitude parts of the basinal topography. Further paleoenvironmental analysis indicated that the warmer and wetter environment present during the Late Miocene to Mid-Pliocene would, on the face of it, be better suited to the application of brGDGT paleothermometers, and this in turn would potentially lead to a systemic overestimation by isotopic paleoaltimeters. We therefore adopted the paleoaltitudinal reconstructions which used brGDGTs and concluded that the lake surface of the GB during the Late Miocene to Mid-Pliocene was 2.5 +/- 0.8 km asl, and that the surrounding mountains exceeded 3.6 km asl in height, implying that the central Himalayas underwent a rapid uplift of similar to 1.5 km after the Mid-Pliocene. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
关键词	paleoelevation paleotemperature GDGTs hydrogen isotope of leaf wax n-alkanes Late Miocene to mid-Pliocene Gyirong Basin
DOI	10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116422
关键词[WOS]	ISOTOPE-BASED PALEOALTIMETRY ; TIBETAN PLATEAU ; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES ; SIGNIFICANT UPLIFT ; GYIRONG BASIN ; MIOCENE ; ELEVATION ; EVOLUTION ; GEOCHEMISTRY ; TETRAETHERS
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) Program[2019QZKK0707] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA20070201] ; Basic Science Center for Tibetan Plateau Earth System [CTPES][41988101-01] ; National Science Foundation of China [NSFC][41571014] ; National Science Foundation of China [NSFC][41871023]
WOS研究方向	Geochemistry & Geophysics
WOS类目	Geochemistry & Geophysics
WOS记录号	WOS:000549183200017
出版者	ELSEVIER
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/17792
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	Bai, Yan
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Ctr Excellence Tibetan Plateau Earth Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Tibetan Plateau Res, Key Lab Continental Collis & Plateau Uplift, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.CNPC, Div Key Lab Carbonate Reservoirs, Chengdu 610500, Peoples R China 5.Southwest Petr Univ, Chengdu 610500, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 7.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Chihao,Bai, Yan,Fang, Xiaomin,et al. Lower-altitude of the Himalayas before the mid-Pliocene as constrained by hydrological and thermal conditions[J]. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS,2020,545(1):11.
APA	Chen, Chihao.,Bai, Yan.,Fang, Xiaomin.,Xu, Qiang.,Zhang, Tao.,...&Chen, Qinghu.(2020).Lower-altitude of the Himalayas before the mid-Pliocene as constrained by hydrological and thermal conditions.EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS,545(1),11.
MLA	Chen, Chihao,et al."Lower-altitude of the Himalayas before the mid-Pliocene as constrained by hydrological and thermal conditions".EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 545.1(2020):11.

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