Basin record of a Miocene lithosphere drip beneath the Colorado Plateau.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
22 Jul 2023
Historique:
received: 20 08 2022
accepted: 14 07 2023
medline: 23 7 2023
pubmed: 23 7 2023
entrez: 22 7 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The sinking of gravitationally unstable lithosphere beneath high-elevation plateaus is proposed to be a key driver of their uplift. Numerical geodynamic models predict that lithosphere removal can lead to transient, dynamic topographic changes that could be preserved in the surface record, particularly in sedimentary deposits of lakes or playas that are subsequently inverted. However, few such examples have been documented. Here we show that the Miocene Bidahochi Basin, which was partially and intermittently filled by the Hopi Paleolake, preserves a record of the quasi-elliptical surface response to a viscous drip of lithosphere >100 km beneath the Colorado Plateau. New detrital zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf, and trace-element data reveal systematic isotopic, geochemical, temperature and fO

Identifiants

pubmed: 37481607
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-40147-7
pii: 10.1038/s41467-023-40147-7
pmc: PMC10363149
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

4433

Subventions

Organisme : National Science Foundation (NSF)
ID : EAR-2048656

Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

John J Y He (JJY)

Department of Geoscience, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA. johnhe@arizona.edu.

Paul Kapp (P)

Department of Geoscience, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.

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