Sedimentary recycling in Jianchuan Basin, SE Tibetan Plateau: A solution to the debate on the formation age of the First Bend (Yangtze River)

• Published in: Geomorphology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Vol. 440; p. 108888
• Main Authors: Zhang, Zengjie, Daly, J. Stephen, Tian, Yuntao, Wang, Yuejun, Badenszki, Eszter, Sun, Xilin, Liu, Yimin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.11.2023
• Subjects: Pb-in-K-feldspar; Provenance; Sedimentary recycling; Yangtze First Bend; Zircon U-Pb dating; Provenance; Pb-in-K-feldspar; Sedimentary recycling; Zircon U-Pb dating; Yangtze First Bend

The sedimentary archive of the Jianchuan Basin provides a critical constraint on the formation of the “First Bend”, a major geomorphological feature of the Yangtze River, involving an abrupt 150° change in flow direction. Despite extensive detrital zircon provenance studies, no consensus has been re...