Exhumation history of the West Kunlun Mountains, northwestern Tibet: Evidence for a long-lived, rejuvenated orogen

- Zircon U-Pb/FT double dating provides new ages for the sediments in southwestern Tarim Basin.
- The data show episodic exhumation and magmatism in the West Kunlun Mountains.
- The orogen has emerged since the Triassic-Early Jurassic and was rejuvenated in the Meso-Cenozoic.
- A double-sided lithospheric wedge model is proposed to explain Neogene tectonism in western Tibet.