How can a youthful mountain survive in a foreland setting? – Constraining the uplift threshold rate by numerical simulation

Active orogenic belts provide natural laboratories for investigat-ing the mechanisms of tectonic deformation and landscape evolu-tion.Along their foreland basins,the relatively continuous sedimentary archives and varied geomorphic units have docu-mented the history of the tectonic uplift of the adjacent orogenic belts.Geological records(e.g.,low-temperature thermochronology and sedimentology)can reveal the history of mountain building on a timescale of tens of millions of years.