Peneplain formation in southern Tibet predates the India-Asia collision and plateau uplift: COMMENT

Abstract

A recent study by [Hetzel et al. (2011)][1] applied thermochronologic and cosmogenic methods to a “low-relief” landscape in the northern Lhasa terrane at elevations >5 km ([Fig. 1A][2]). Modeling by Hetzel et al. suggests rapid late Cretaceous–early Eocene (between ca. 80 and 50 Ma) exhumation