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Drainage evolution of the Pearl River, one of the major rivers in the eastern margin of the Asian continent, has important implications for the tectonomorphic evolution of the northern margin of the South China Sea and the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Previous reconstructions using different methods suggested discrepant timings for the formation of river, ranging from Early Oligocene to Middle Miocene. Here, we address this heavily debated topic using quantitative unmixing modelling of detrital zircon data from the Pearl River Mouth Basin in the northern margin of the South China Sea. In this study, we develop a novel approach for estimating the relative contributions of detrital zircon sources to their shared sink, and propose to use the correlation coefficients among zircon contribution models to evaluate the trade‐off among sources with similar age spectra, to avoid the potential overinterpretation of individual contributions. Our new method is applied to new (997) and published detrital zircon U–Pb data from offshore boreholes and modern Pearl River samples to quantitatively interpret and reconstruct the sediment provenance of the Pearl River Mouth Basin and the development of the Pearl River. Our findings reveal that the provenance change of the Pearl River Mouth Basin can be divided into three main stages. Eocene sediments were mainly sourced in the intra‐basinal highlands and the eastern coastal tributaries, indicating a local drainage system. Early Oligocene provenances extended westward, as shown by the increase in sediment contribution from the central and western parts of the Pearl River (28% in total). Since the Late Oligocene, the eastern, central and western parts of the modern Pearl River have contributed equal amounts of zircons to the Pearl River Mouth Basin, indicating the establishment and long‐term stability of the modern‐like drainage system, as highlighted by our new data acquired from the borehole Miocene strata. The Late Oligocene westward expansion of the Pearl River is consistent with the timing of the coeval breakup and spreading of the South China Sea and the intensified Asian monsoon precipitation, highlighting the importance of base level fall and climate in controlling the drainage evolution.

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Schematic Late Oligocene–present (a), the Early Oligocene (b) and the Eocene (c) reconstructions of the drainage system of the Pearl River, draining into the PRMB. The Eocene Pearl River was restricted in the eastern part of the Cathaysia Block. The river propagated to the Yangtze Block, west of the Shaoxing–Jiangshan–Pingxiang fault zone in the Early Oligocene (b). Further westward propagation formed the modern‐like drainage system at the Late Oligocene (a). The modern coastal line is plotted for showing the relative locations.

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Eocene to present evolution of the Pearl River, China: A quantitative provenance interpretation on large detrital zircon U–Pb geochronological data
Basin Research 35, 2249 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12797
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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): detrital zircon geochronology; drainage adjustment; Gaussian Mixture Model; Pearl River; sedimentary provenance

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