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The proportions of sediments derived from the Central Tibetan Watershed Mountains changed during the Jurassic. The well‐defined watershed formed in the Late Jurassic.

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The Central Tibet Watershed Mountains (CTWMs) are located in the hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau, extending over 1000 km from west to east. These mountains currently function as a drainage divide, separating Tibet's rivers into eastward‐ and southward‐flowing systems to the north and the south of the mountains, respectively. The timing of watershed formation remains contentious, which hinders a comprehensive understanding of the geomorphic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau. The Qiangtang basin, where the CTWMs are situated, preserves critical geological records essential for deciphering landscape evolution. The age distributions of new detrital zircon U–Pb data from the Middle and Upper Jurassic sandstones in the northern Qiangtang sub‐basin are consistent with a published data set, with age clusters at 200–300, 500–700, 800–1000, 1800–2000 and 2400–2600 Ma. Qualitative provenance analysis identifies the major source rocks as the Palaeozoic and Upper Triassic strata in the CTWMs, as well as the Triassic turbidites in the Hoh Xil‐Songpan Ganze terrane (HSG), which bound the northern Qiangtang sub‐basin to the south and north, respectively. Minor contributions come from Late Triassic intrusive and volcanic rocks, as well as Jurassic granitoids. The abundant detrital zircon data from the Qiangtang basin offers an opportunity to investigate the formation of the CTWMs through a quantified interpretation of the source‐to‐sink system. The combination of inverse and forward modelling of large detrital data sets facilitates the creation of provenance maps and avoids laborious descriptions of individual age modes. Integrated with sandstone petrographic analysis and paleocurrent data, the provenance of the Jurassic sediments can be quantitatively constrained. The CTWMs within the Qiangtang basin consistently served as significant sources throughout the Jurassic, while younger zircon grains were contributed by local sources, including the Triassic and Jurassic magmatic rocks. The proportion of the HSG source in the north increased throughout the basin in the Middle Jurassic but decreased dramatically in the southern Qiangtang sub‐basin during the Late Jurassic. We interpret that the embryonic stage of the CTWMs, which did not fully prevent sediment transport from the HSG to the southern Qiangtang sub‐basin, persisted from the Early to Middle Jurassic. The formation of a well‐defined watershed occurred in central Tibet in the Late Jurassic, probably triggered by the trench‐parallel mid‐ocean ridge subduction of the Bangong‐Nujing oceanic lithosphere.

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Formation of the Central Tibet Watershed Mountains in the Late Jurassic: Evidence From Provenance Mapping of the Source‐to‐Sink System in the Qiangtang Basin
Basin Research 37, e70017 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.70017
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Keyword(s): detrital zircon; DZmix; DZnmf; provenance mapping; Qiangtang; sediment modelling

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