Source-to-sink system reconstruction in the northern Jiaolai Basin, eastern China, by multiproxy provenance methods and implications for exhumation of the Sulu orogen

The Early Cretaceous sedimentary successions in the Jiaodong-Laiyang (Jiaolai) Basin provide valuable information about sediment provenances and tectonic processes. A clear understanding of the provenance development of the Jiaolai Basin along the northern margin of the Sulu orogen and would elucidate the exhumation history of the Sulu orogen during the post-orogenic period. However, the precise age and provenance evolution of the stratigraphy...