... Basin, central Tibet, SW China, including abundant insects and fishes. These fossils are similar to those from the late Eocene (∼39.5–37 Ma) Lunpola–Nima sediment depo-centres in sharing the dominating aquatic bug Aquarius lunpolaensis and cyprinid fishes. Chalcolestes tibetensis sp. nov., the oldest...

...  6.3 Nima earthquake using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data. On 22 July 2020, an M w  6.3 earthquake struck Nima, China, in the Qiangtang block of the central Tibetan plateau. The seismic fault is a western branch of the Yibu Chaka normal fault ( Ji et al. , 2021 ; Li...

... was characterized by left‐lateral strike slip ( Taylor et al. , 2003 ; Fig.  1a–c ). According to the USGS, the epicenter was located ∼26 km northeast of Rongma Village, Nima County, in the western Xizang of China (Fig.  1c ). Around the epicenter area, only 35 moderate historical earthquakes had been recorded...

...Paul Kapp; Peter G. DeCelles; George E. Gehrels; Matthew Heizler; Lin Ding Abstract A geological and geochronologic investigation of the Nima area along the Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Bangong suture of central Tibet (∼32°N, ∼87°E) provides well-dated records of contractional deformation...

...P.G. DeCelles; P. Kapp; L. Ding; G.E. Gehrels Abstract Located in the Bangong suture zone between the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes of central Tibet, the Nima basin records Cretaceous–late Miocene sediment accumulation during a period of drastically changing paleogeography and paleoelevation...

... on these conflicting interpretations. REFERENCES CITED Bosboom R.E. Dupont-Nivet G. Houben A.J.P. Brinkhuis H. Villa G. Mandic O. Stoica M. Zachariasse W.J. Guo Z. Li C. Krijgsman W. , 2011 , Late Eocene sea retreat from the Tarim Basin (west China...

... for their constructive suggestions, which have significantly improved the manuscript. This research was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences grant KZCX2-YW-Q09-06, the China MOST 973 Programme grant 2009CB825001 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China grants 90714010, 40821091 and 40925012...

...., 2007a ); Nima, Selin Co, and Baingoin Basin in central part of northern Lhasa ( DeCelles et al., 2007 ; Lai et al., 2019a ; Zhang et al., 2011 ); and Coqen Basin in the central part of central Lhasa ( Fig. 1A ; Sun et al., 2015a ). Previous studies have revealed that most of the Cretaceous basins...

... with elevation, provided samples record original depositional conditions and appropriate context exists for interpreting T (Δ 47 ) and δ 18 O values. Previous calcite δ 18 O and δ 13 C values for Oligocene-age marls from the Nima Basin in central Tibet are thought to reflect original depositional conditions...

... ; Wu et al., 2010 ; Wang et al., 2012 ; An et al., 2014 ; Orme et al., 2014 ). To the north of the Gangdese arc (the northern Lhasa subterrane), there are widespread Cretaceous sedimentary basins, such as the Linzhou Basin, Nima Basin, Selin Co Basin, and Coqen Basin ( Fig. 1B ; Leier et al., 2007a...

... structures ( Armijo et al., 1986 ; Taylor and Peltzer, 2006 ). The epicenters of the three earthquakes are located near the southern end of the Riganpei fault and their focal solutions indicate normal faulting ( Fig. 1A ). Figure 1. Interferometric satellite aperture radar observations of Nima-Gaize...

... values than winter snow and rain ( Araguás-Araguás et al. 1998 ). The strong 18 O and D depletions in summer rainfall can be modeled in terms of gradual, Rayleigh distillation of moisture ( Rowley et al. 2001 ) that derives water vapor from the equatorial Indian Ocean or East China Sea, is drawn...

... by Late Cretaceous detrital-zircon ages and Aptian–Albian limestone clasts containing Orbitolina ( Leier et al., 2007a ; Volkmer et al., 2014 ). In section SE-N04 measured south of Dagze Co (Nima area; Fig. 1B ), the Jingzhushan Formation overlies instead a ∼500-m-thick, clast- or matrix-supported...

... for reconstructing the composi tion of past vegetation and thus paleoenvironmental conditions (e.g., temperature, precipitation, elevation, latitude). In China, a large database of modern vegetation and pollen occurrences is available ( Hou, 1983 ; Ni et al., 2000 ; Yu et al., 2001 , 2004 ; Lu et al., 2007...

... separation at the Geological Team of Hebei Province, China. Dating was carried out using the external detector method ( Hurford and Green, 1983 ). Fission track analyses were performed at the University of Waikato in New Zealand (for samples FT23-1, FT23-3, FT23-5, P05-2Ft, and P05-4Ft) and the State Key...

... Gao3, Baoliang Li1, Yong Wang2, Hanxiao Huang4, and Dan Wang5 1 Ministry of Natural Resources, Key Laboratory of Metallogeny and Mineral Assessment, Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China 2 Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China 3...