Layered cave passages formed on the walls of the Qianyou River valley in the middle part of the Qinling Mountains since the Pleistocene due to the intermittent uplifts. 12 speleothem samples near ruins of palaeowater ...Layered cave passages formed on the walls of the Qianyou River valley in the middle part of the Qinling Mountains since the Pleistocene due to the intermittent uplifts. 12 speleothem samples near ruins of palaeowater tables in 3 cave passages are dated by using the Th method. The results show that the 3 caves began to uplift (358±38) ka, (247±28) ka, (118±19) ka ago respectively. Given the differences of elevation between the caves, we could obtain the downcutting rates of the valley: (0.23±0.02) mm/a during 358 -247 ka, (0.19±0.03) mm/a during 247-118 ka, and (0.51(0.08) mm/a since 118 ka. This implies that more and more strong uplifting sustained in the middle part of Qinling since 358展开更多
基金This work was supported by the Seismology Union Foundation (Grant No. 100064)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40173011).
文摘Layered cave passages formed on the walls of the Qianyou River valley in the middle part of the Qinling Mountains since the Pleistocene due to the intermittent uplifts. 12 speleothem samples near ruins of palaeowater tables in 3 cave passages are dated by using the Th method. The results show that the 3 caves began to uplift (358±38) ka, (247±28) ka, (118±19) ka ago respectively. Given the differences of elevation between the caves, we could obtain the downcutting rates of the valley: (0.23±0.02) mm/a during 358 -247 ka, (0.19±0.03) mm/a during 247-118 ka, and (0.51(0.08) mm/a since 118 ka. This implies that more and more strong uplifting sustained in the middle part of Qinling since 358
