Cenozoic evolution of the Yangtze River: Constraints from detrital zircon U Pb ages

The development of modern drainage patterns in eastern Tibet is closely related to uplift of the Tibetan Plateau. The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia. When and how this river formed is still vigorously debated. Here we compile published detrital zircon UPb ages from the Chuxiong, Sichuan, Jianghan, Jianchuan, Simao, Vientiane, Song Hong-Yinggehai basins, marginal sea basins in East China and Taiwan to reconstruct the evolution of the...