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| <mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 1/09/2019 |
|---|---|
| <mark>Journal</mark> | Geological Society of America Bulletin |
| Issue number | 9-10 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1607-1622 |
| Publication Status | Published |
| Early online date | 29/03/19 |
| <mark>Original language</mark> | English |
The Bengal Fan provides a Neogene record of Eastern and Central Himalaya exhumation. We provide the first detrital thermochronological study (apatite and rutile U-Pb, mica Ar-Ar, zircon fission track) of sediment samples collected during International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 354 to the mid-Bengal Fan. Our data from rutile and zircon fission-track thermochronometry show a shift in lag times over the interval 5.59-3.47 Ma. The oldest sample with a lag time of 6 m.y.) has a depositional age of 5.594.50 Ma, and the zircon and rutile populations then show a static peak until >12 Ma. This interval, from 5.59-4.50 Ma to >12 Ma, is most easily interpreted as recording passive erosion of the Greater Himalaya. However, single grains with lag times of