Post-Triassic multiple exhumation of the Taihang Mountains revealed via low-T thermochronology: Implications for the paleo-geomorphologic reconstruction of the North China Craton

To better define the uplift and denudation process of the Taihang Mountains and its uplift–subsidence coupling with the western Bohai Bay Basin, the zircon and apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology and apatite fission track thermochronology of samples from the Taihang Mountains, Trans–North China Orogen, were examined in this study. The weighted averages of single–grain zircon and apatite (U-Th)/He ages were 70.3–79.9 Ma and 15.1–26.8 Ma,...