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4 Cenozoic exhumation history of the southernmost Tien Shan and<br />
eastern Pamirs<br />
4.1 Introduction<br />
In the previous chapter it was suggested that the Pamirs assembled by orogenic<br />
processes from Late Palaeozoic to Mesozoic times, i.e. by the development of<br />
successively southward-stepping Andean-type plate margins. In contrast, the Recent<br />
Pamirs mountain range is a result of the Tertiary India-Asia collision, which brought<br />
the Pamirs into an intra-continental plate position.<br />
So far, no comprehensive study exists about the Tertiary thermal evolution of the<br />
Pamirs. Regional studies define an important Tertiary tectonothermal event in the<br />
south-western Pamirs (Hubbard et al. 1999) and eastern Central Pamirs (Ratschbacher<br />
& Schwab 1999, Schwab et al. 1999, 2000), but it remains an open question where<br />
exactly Cenozoic deformation and related exhumation is located in the Pamirs and<br />
when exhumation started. Several Tertiary intramontane basins along the southernmost<br />
Tien Shan, the margins of the external Pamirs, and in the Central Pamirs are<br />
indicative for active erosion during the Tertiary.<br />
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