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The Kunlun Pass Basin, located in the middle of the eastern Kunlun Mountains, received relatively con-tinuous late Cenozoic sediments from the surrounding mountains, archiving great information to understand the deformation and uplift histories of the northern Tibetan Pla-teau. The Kunlun-Yellow River Movement, identified from the tectonomorphologic and sedimentary evolution of the Kunlun Pass Basin by Cui Zhijiu et al. (1997, 1998), is roughly coincident with many important global and Plateau climatic and environmental events, becoming a crucial time interval to understand tectonic-climatic interactions. How-ever, the ages used to constrict the events remain great un-certainty. Here, we present the results of detailed magneto-stratigraphy of the late Cenozoic sediments in the Kunlun Pass Basin, which show the basin sediments were formed between about 3.6 Ma and 0.5 Ma and the Kunlun-Yellow River Movement occurred at 1.2 to ~0.78 Ma. The lithology, sedimentary facies and lithofacies associations divide the basin into five stages of tectonosedimentary evolution, indi-cating the northern Tibetan Plateau having experienced five episodes of tectonic uplifts at ~3.6, 2.69-2.58, 1.77, 1.2, 0.87 and ~0.78 Ma since the Pliocene.
The Kunlun Pass Basin, located in the middle of the eastern Kunlun Mountains, received relatively con-tinuous late Cenozoic sediments from the surrounding mountains, archiving great information to understand the deformation and uplift histories of the northern Tibetan Pla-teau. The Kunlun-Yellow River Movement, identified from the tectonomorphologic and sedimentary evolution of the Kunlun Pass Basin by Cui Zhijiu et al. (1997, 1998), is roughly coincident with many important global and Plateau climatic and environmental events, becomes a critical time interval to understand tectonic- How-ever, the ages used to constrict the events remain great un-certainty. Here, we present the results of detailed magneto-stratigraphy of the late Cenozoic sediments in the Kunlun Pass Basin, which show the basin sediments were formed between about 3.6 Ma and 0.5 Ma and the Kunlun-Yellow River Movement occurred at 1.2 to ~ 0.78 Ma. The lithology, sedimentary facies and lithofacies as sociations divide the basin into five stages of tectonosedimentary evolution, indi-cating the northern Tibetan Plateau having experienced five episodes of tectonic uplifts at ~ 3.6, 2.69-2.58, 1.77, 1.2, 0.87 and ~ 0.78 Ma since the Pliocene.