%0 Journal Article
%A Carrapa, B.
%A DeCelles, P.G.
%A Thomson, S.N.
%A Orme, D.A.
%A Robert, X.
%A Schoenbohm, L.M.
%T Asymmetric exhumation of the Mount Everest region: Implications for the tectono-topographic evolution of the Himalaya
%B Geology
%D 2016
%R 10.1130/G37756.1
%J Geology
%V 44
%N 8
%P 611-614
%@ 0091-7613
%X The tectonic and topographic history of the Himalaya-Tibet orogenic system remains controversial, with several competing models that predict different exhumation histories. Here, we present new low-temperature thermochronological data from the Mount Everest region, which, combined with thermal-kinematic landscape evolution modeling, indicate asymmetric exhumation of Mount Everest consistent with a scenario in which the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau was located >100 km farther south during the mid-Miocene. Northward plateau retreat was caused by erosional incision during the Pliocene. Our results suggest that the South Tibetan Detachment was a localized structure and that no coupling between precipitation and erosion is required for Miocene exhumation of Greater Himalayan Sequence rocks on Mount Everest.
%[ 2/23/2019
%U https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G37756.1