AGU_SuppInfo_2023TC008211.pdf

<b>Supporting Information Figure S1.</b> Photomicrographs (crossed polarized and plane polarized light) of samples from the Kelasu section. Main components: carbonate detritus, (meta-)siltstone fragments, mudstone fragments, and quartz.<b>Supporting Information Figure S2</b>. The overall weighted mean (207Pb corrected) 206Pb/238U ages and U-Pb Terra-Wasserburg concordia lower-intercept age of McClure Mountain apatite.<b>Supporting Information Figure S3. </b>Representative CL images of detrital zircons analyzed in this study from Kelasu section. The numbers in the brackets below U-Pb ages are Th/U ratios.<b>Supporting Information Table S1.</b> Summary of the various age groups from the U-Pb data of detrital zircons and apatites and the corresponding statistical data for the 9 samples; ZUPb: detrital zircon U-Pb dating, AUPb: detrital apatite U-Pb dating.<b>Supporting Information Table S2.</b> LA-QQQ-ICPMS U-Pb analytical results of detrital zircons from Cenozoic strata in the Kelasu section for this study.<b>Supporting Information Table S3.</b> Compilation of U-Pb data of detrital zircons from Early Cretaceous and Cenozoic strata sedimentary rocks in the Kuqa River section along the southern flank of the Chinese western Tianshan.<b>Supporting Information Table S4.</b> Apatite fission track ages and U-Pb isotope information for apatite measured from sedimentary rocks in Kelasu section and Awate section for this study. All data measured by LA-QQQ-ICPMS from the same sampled aliquots.