The impact of climate change on glaciers and the hydrological processes in the easternmost end of the eastern Tianshan Mountains has yet to be understood. This study investigated the glacier change (area, surface elevation and volume change) and anal...
We conducted a study on the petrology, geochemistry, and zircon U–Pb dating of Late Devonian intrusive rocks in the Tulargen area of the Eastern Tianshan Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang, China. These intrusive rocks primarily consist of gabbro (382 &pl...
The Kalatag mineralization belt is an important metallogenic belt of polymetallic mineral deposits in the northern part of eastern Tianshan, and its age and tectonic setting are still controversial. We identified a set of Devonian volcanic rocks host...
The Eastern Tianshan region, influenced by the far-field effect of northward compression and expansion of the Qinghai-Xizang block, features highly developed Late Quaternary active faults that exhibit significant neotectonic activity. Historically, t...
Eastern Tianshan hosts a number of porphyry Cu deposits. However, these mainly formed in the Jueluotage Belt, in the middle part of Eastern Tianshan. The Tonggou porphyry Cu mineralization is an exception to this, since it is located in the Bogda Oro...
The eastern Tianshan region in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) is characterized by multiple complex tectonic activity of uncertain historical contribution to the construction of the CAOB. This study utilizes a multi-proxy geochemical approach...
Volcanic rocks of the Qi’eshan Group, which are widely distributed in the Dananhu arc of the Eastern Tianshan, NW China, have long been debated in terms of their formation age and tectonic setting. In this study, we conducted an integrated stud...
The eastern Tianshan Mountains are located in the arid interior of Asia, where tree growth is especially sensitive to climate. The ratio of stable carbon isotopes (δ13C) in the tree rings can provide information on changes in atmospheric CO2 co...
The climate changed from warm-dry to warm-wet during the 1960s in northwest China. However, the effects of climate change on the response of radial growth from different age-class trees have been unclear. We assessed the age-effect radial growth resp...
As direct geomorphic evidence and records of earthquakes on the surface, coseismic surface ruptures have long been a key focus in earthquake research. However, compared with strike-slip and normal faults, studies on reverse-fault surface ruptures rem...
The Yuhaixi Mo(Cu) deposit is a new discovery in the eastern section of the Dananhu-Tousuquan island arc, Eastern Tianshan. However, the genesis of the Yuhaixi Mo(Cu) deposit is still not fully understood. The Yuhaixi intrusion is composed of monzoni...
Identifying multi-scale anomalies that have simple forms and geological significance is critical for enhancing the interpretability of gravity and magnetic survey data. In recent years, empirical mode decomposition (EMD), which was developed as a sig...
The Kalatag Cu–polymetallic district in the Eastern Tianshan Orogen, NW China, is characterized by complex tectono-magmatic evolution and diverse mineralization styles, including porphyry-skarn, hydrothermal-vein, and volcanogenic massive sulfi...
The Baixintan mafic-ultramafic intrusion in the Dananhu-Tousuquan arc of the Eastern Tianshan orogenic belt is composed of lherzolite, olivine gabbro, and gabbro. Olivine gabbros contain zircon grains with a U-Pb age of 276.8 ± 1.1 Ma, similar to the...
The Harla gold deposit is located on the eastern segment of the Kanggur-Huangshan ductile shear belt in Eastern Tianshan, on the southern margin of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The orebodies show close spatial association with NEE-trending faults...
Baixintan is a magmatic Ni–Cu sulfide deposit discovered in the central Tuwu–Yandong porphyry Cu belt of the Eastern Tianshan Orogen (ETO) of NW China in 2016. It is in close proximity (~5 km) to the Tuwu Cu deposit, the largest Carbonife...
Early Permian magmatism records a major phase of tectonomagmatic reorganization in eastern Tianshan. Small felsic plutons provide age constraints on this transition and preserve evidence of crustal melting and magma differentiation, but their source...
The Baijianshan deposit is the sole skarn Zn-Cu polymetallic deposit in the Xiaoshitouquan ore field, Xinjiang, China. Its ore genesis remains controversial, which hinders understanding of the relationship between skarn-type Zn-Cu and adjacent epithe...
Saussurea involucrata is a rare perennial herb endemic to the alpine zone of the Tianshan Mountains, possessing significant medicinal value yet facing severe threats from overharvesting and habitat fragmentation. The core distribution area and recogn...
The Bogda Range (hereafter referred to as the Bogda) is located in the Eastern Tianshan. Interpreting its tectono-thermal history is critical to understanding the intra-continental evolution of the Tianshan. In this study, we report new apatite fissi...
The Late Carboniferous to Early Permian is a critical period of the Chinese Tianshan, witnessing the tectonic transition from subduction to post-collisional extension during the final amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). The late C...
Considerable uncertainty exists regarding the overall effects of future climate change on forests in arid mountains, and the elevational range of drought-induced tree growth decline remains unclear. Tianshan is the largest mountain in arid regions gl...
The spatial organization within ancient settlements offers valuable insights into the evolution of social complexity. This paper examines spatially and chronologically contextualized architectural structures and artifacts uncovered at the Late Bronze...
The Bailingshan submarine volcanic-hosted iron deposit in the Eastern Tianshan provides an opportunity to investigate skarn hydrothermal evolution and high-grade Fe mineralization. This study integrates garnet petrography, in situ major- and trace-el...
Glaciers are vital to water resources in the arid land of central Asia. Long-term runoff records in the glacierized area are particularly valuable in terms of evaluating glacier recession and water resource change on both a regional and global scale....
As a key component of the hydrological cycle, knowledge and comprehension of precipitation formation and evolution are of leading significance. This study investigates the statistical characteristics of raindrop size distribution for heavy precipitat...
In recent years, soil heavy metal pollution has become an important issue of general concern because it is an important factor that threatens the soil environment. To assess the risk of the human health of the people living in the economic belt on th...
Fluvial terraces provide important archives for understanding the relative roles of tectonics and climate in landscape evolution. Here, we investigate late Quaternary fluvial terraces in the tectonically active Turpan fold–thrust belt (FTB) of...
Changes in age structure, spatial distribution and intraspecific interactions across environmental gradients often reflect adaptations of plant populations to their environment. Our study explored the growth status of the Picea schrenkiana population...
The deep integration of machine learning technology with geological prospecting has brought to the forefront a key challenge: how to construct geological-mineralization models by fusing multi-source data, select model features with guidance from meta...
The study of the occurrence state and enrichment mechanism of cobalt in Cu-Ni-Fe-Ti paragenetic deposits is critical for precise ore blending and comprehensive utilization of associated cobalt resources. This work investigates the Xiangshanxi Cu-Ni-F...
The Tuwu-Yandong porphyry Cu belt is located on the southern margin of the Dananhu island arc in eastern Tianshan, constituting the largest Cu metallogenic belt in Northwest China. Two episodes (~334 Ma and ~317 Ma) of porphyry Cu-Mo mineralization i...
The chemical composition of rutile has been used as an indicator in magmatic and metamorphic-related diagenetic systems, but rarely in porphyry-style ore systems. The Tuwu deposit (557 Mt at 0.58% Cu) is a large porphyry-style Cu mineralization in Ea...
Geochemical anomaly detection plays a critical role in mineral exploration, yet conventional methods are often limited by compositional effects, sensitivity to outliers, and insufficient consideration of spatial relationships. To address these issues...
The Yamansu deposit, which is hosted in the volcanic-sedimentary sequence of the Carboniferous Yamansu Formation in Eastern Tianshan, NW China, contains many skarns, and the orebodies occur in the ore district in stratoidal, banded or lenticular form...
Precipitation is a key process in the hydrologic cycle. However, accurate precipitation data are scarce in high mountainous areas, mainly restricted by complex topography, solid precipitation and sparse recording stations. In order to evaluate the qu...
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In typical semi-arid areas, the timely and effective monitoring and evaluation of soil heavy metal pollution are of critical importance to prevent soil deterioration and achieve the sustainable use of soil resources. To further understand the degree...
The Kanggur ductile shear zone (KDSZ), located in the south margin of the Central Asia Orogenic Belt (CAOB), plays a critical role in the tectonic evolution and mineralization in eastern Tianshan. Although different isotopic chronologies have been re...
The Tonggou deposit is a porphyry Cu and vein-type Cu-Zn mineralization system located in the Bogda Orogenic Belt, north of Eastern Tianshan. Systematic fluid inclusion analyses were performed on granular quartz from the magnetite–quartz stage...
The Xiaorequanzi Cu deposit is located in the western part of the Dananhu–Tousuquan Island arc in eastern Tianshan, Xinjiang. It includes stratiform and epithermal-related veinlet mineralization. However, the genesis of this deposit remains con...
Glaciers, often regarded as “frozen reservoirs”, play a crucial role in replenishing numerous rivers in arid regions, contributing to ecological balance and managing river flow. Recently, the rapid shrinkage of the glaciers in the East Ti...
The change in snow cover under climate change is poorly understood in Tianshan Mountains. Here, we investigate the spatiotemporal characteristics and trends of snow-covered area (SCA) and snow-covered days (SCD) in the Tianshan Mountains by using the...
The Tianshan Mountains are located in the hinterland of the Eurasian continent, spanning east to west across China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. As the primary water source for Central Asia’s arid regions, the Tianshan mountain syste...
To reveal the spatiotemporal patterns of the asymmetry in the Tianshan mountains’ climatic warming, in this study, we analyzed climate and MODIS snow cover data (2001–2019). The change trends of asymmetrical warming, snow depth (SD), snow coverage pe...
In recent decades, the global climate has changed significantly. The climate in Northwest China became warm-wet, especially in the Tianshan Mountains. In order to explore the response of tree growth to recent climate change, the two dominant trees sp...
In this paper, we address some questions with respect to the Tianshan Mountains that are necessary for understanding the present deformation rate in this region. A series of thrust nappe structures are distributed on the north and south sides of the...
Investigating the diurnal variation characteristics of precipitation (DVCP) in Xinjiang, an arid region of Northwest China, is essential for improving water resource management and disaster mitigation strategies. This study examines the DVCP associat...
In this paper, the aim is to achieve safe, rapid excavation of an extra-long, large-cross-section highway tunnel in Eastern Tianshan, as well as to reduce production costs, simplify production processes, reduce cycle time, and improve production effi...
Ips hauseri Reitter is the most important wood-boring pest of natural Tianshan spruce (Picea schrenkiana) forests and is listed as an A2 quarantine pest by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO). Because the beetle is sma...
Dasyhippus barbipes (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846) is an early dominant grasshopper in Chinese grasslands, and understanding its climatic niche is important for monitoring and early warning. Based on nationwide field surveys conducted from 2019 to 2024...
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