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New evidence from heavy minerals and detrital zircons in Quaternary fluvial sediments for the evolution of the upper Yangtze River, South China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2022

Hengxu Huang ,
Fang Xiang Open the ORCID record for Fang Xiang [Opens in a new window] ,
Deyan Zhang ,
Yuming Guo ,
Qi Yang  and
Li Ding
Hengxu Huang
Affiliation:
Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, Sichuan, China
Fang Xiang*
Affiliation:
Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, Sichuan, China
Deyan Zhang
Affiliation:
Institut für Geologie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover 30167, Germany
Yuming Guo
Affiliation:
College of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, Sichuan, China
Qi Yang
Affiliation:
College of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, Sichuan, China
Li Ding
Affiliation:
College of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, Sichuan, China
*
*Corresponding author e-mail address: cdxiangfang@126.com
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Abstract

In the Three Gorges and adjacent areas, there are three planation surfaces and five terraces along the Yangtze River that record the evolution history of the river system. Here, we used diagnostic heavy minerals, U-Pb geochronology, and trace elements of detrital zircons from one planation surface, two terraces, and a modern point bar to reconstruct the evolution history of the upper Yangtze River, specifically the Chuan River in the Sichuan Basin. The sediments in the lowest planation surface had different felsic source rocks derived from east of the Three Gorges, which indicated that before the disintegration of the lowest planation surface (0.75 Ma), there were two paleorivers: the westward-flowing paleo-Chuan River and eastward-flowing paleo-Yangtze River separated by the Huangling Dome. At 0.75–0.73 Ma, the dominant detrital zircons from the Sichuan Basin in the sediments of terrace T5 (the highest terrace) confirmed that the paleo-Yangtze River cut through the Three Gorges and captured the paleo-Chuan River, and the Daliang Mountains became the new drainage divide. Finally, the appearance of materials from the upper Jinsha River in terrace T2 indicated that the paleo-Yangtze River progressively captured the paleo-Jinsha River, and the modern upper Yangtze River formed before 0.05 Ma. These river capture events of the upper Yangtze River confirmed the Quaternary uplift of the SE Tibetan Plateau.

Keywords

Heavy mineralsZircon U-Pb chronologyZircon trace elementProvenance analysesQuaternary drainage evolutionUpper Yangtze RiverPaleo-Chuan RiverThree Gorges formationNeotectonicsSE Tibetan Plateau
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Quaternary Research , Volume 113 , May 2023 , pp. 162 - 181
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