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Late Miocene Unroofing Of The Inner Lesser Himalaya Recorded In The Nw Himalaya Foreland Basin, Elise Marie Exnicios
Late Miocene Unroofing Of The Inner Lesser Himalaya Recorded In The Nw Himalaya Foreland Basin, Elise Marie Exnicios
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Testing models that link climate and solid Earth tectonics requires independent erosional, structural and climatic histories. Two well preserved stratigraphic sections of the Himalayan foreland basin are exposed in NW India. The Jawalamukhi (13–5 Ma) and Joginder Nagar sections (21–13 Ma) are dated by magnetostratigraphy and span a period of significant climate change and tectonic evolution. We use detrital zircon U-Pb dating and apatite fission track analyses to reconstruct changes in the patterns of erosion and exhumation in this area from the Early Miocene to Pliocene. The provenance of the foreland sediments shows that since at least ~21 Ma the …