TY - JOUR
T1 - Reply to comment by Zhao et al. on “Hydrothermal events in the Linzizong Group
T2 - Implications for Paleogene exhumation and paleoaltimetry of the southern Tibetan Plateau”
AU - Huang, Wentao
AU - Lippert, Peter C.
AU - Reiners, Peter W
AU - Quade, Jay
AU - Kapp, Paul
AU - Ganerød, Morgan
AU - Guo, Zhaojie
AU - van Hinsbergen, Douwe J.J.
N1 - Funding Information:
W.H. acknowledges the support from the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (STEP, grant No. 2019QZKK0708 ) on this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/2/1
Y1 - 2023/2/1
N2 - In their comment on our publication about the discovery of two hydrothermal events in the Linzizong Group (Huang et al., 2022), Zhao et al. question the reliability of our thermochronologic data and the existence of hydrothermal events experienced by these rocks. They argue that their field and microscopic observations, as well as paleomagnetic studies, indicate that the lower Linzizong volcanic rocks preserve primary igneous textures and paleomagnetic signals. In this reply, we address these issues raised by Zhao et al., provide more field evidence, and conduct additional analyses that show that their assertions are not supported. We emphasize that hydrothermal events related to magmatism and deformation have systematically induced resetting of thermochronologic, stable isotopic, and paleomagnetic records of the lower Linzizong Group in the Linzhou basin of southern Tibet.
AB - In their comment on our publication about the discovery of two hydrothermal events in the Linzizong Group (Huang et al., 2022), Zhao et al. question the reliability of our thermochronologic data and the existence of hydrothermal events experienced by these rocks. They argue that their field and microscopic observations, as well as paleomagnetic studies, indicate that the lower Linzizong volcanic rocks preserve primary igneous textures and paleomagnetic signals. In this reply, we address these issues raised by Zhao et al., provide more field evidence, and conduct additional analyses that show that their assertions are not supported. We emphasize that hydrothermal events related to magmatism and deformation have systematically induced resetting of thermochronologic, stable isotopic, and paleomagnetic records of the lower Linzizong Group in the Linzhou basin of southern Tibet.
KW - hydrothermal alteration
KW - Linzizong Group
KW - southern Tibet
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U2 - 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117973
DO - 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117973
M3 - Letter
AN - SCOPUS:85145966979
SN - 0012-821X
VL - 603
JO - Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters
JF - Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters
M1 - 117973
ER -