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NATURE GEOSCIENCE
卷 2, 期 5, 页码 360-363出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO502
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- NSF [EAR-0409132, 0735402]
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [0735402] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The timing and role of exhumation in the St Elias orogen, the world's highest coastal mountain range, has been unclear. Sampling is limited to high mountain ridges that tower over widespread ice fields that sit in deeply eroded parts of the orogen. Existing bedrock studies(1-3) in the region are therefore prone to bias. Here we analyse detrital material of active sediment systems in the St Elias orogen to obtain age information from the inaccessible ice-covered valley bottoms. We present 1,674 detrital zircon fission-track ages from modern rivers that drain the glaciers. We find a population of very young ages of less than 3 Myr from the Seward-Malaspina glacier systems that is sharply localized in the area of the orogen's highest relief, highest seismicity and at the transition from transform to subduction tectonics. Our data provide evidence for intense localized exhumation that is driven by coupling between erosion and active tectonic rock uplift.
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