Figure 5. Paleogeographic and provenance response to surface uplift and exhumation of the Lhasa terrane.

(a) Evolution of depositional areas (white) and denuded areas (grey) of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas from (a(1)) the Eocene to (a(2)) the Oligocene modified from Zhang et al.³, (b(1)). Statistical distribution of zircon SHRIMP U-Pb ages for the Miocene adakitic rocks from southern Tibet modified from Mo et al.⁵², (b(2)). Histogram of apatite fission track ages in the Lhasa terrane⁵⁷.