© 2013 American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Late Cenozoic extension and crustal doming in the India-Eurasia collision zone: New thermochronologic constraints from the NE Chinese Pamir Rasmus C. Thiede 1 , Edward R. Sobel 1 , Jie Chen 2 , Lindsay M. Schoenbohm 3 , Daniel F. Stockli 4 , Masafumi Sudo 1 , and Manfred R. Strecker 1 1 Universitaet Potsdam, Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany, thiede@geo.uni-potsdam.de; sobel@rz.uni-potsdam.de; msudo@geo.uni-potsdam.de; strecker@geo.uni- potsdam.de 2 State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, 100029 China; chenjie@ies.ac.cn 3 University of Toronto Mississauga, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6, lschoenbohm@gmail.com 4 The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX USA, 78712 Key Points: 1. The eastern Pamir accommodates the northwestward divergence of the western and central Pamir by east-west crustal extension during north-south convergence since at least 5 to 7 Ma. 2. Uplift and growth of Kongur Shan and Muztagh Ata domal massifs occurs successively rather than synchronously. 3. The Kongur Shan Extensional System is probably influenced by an underlying lithospheric tear fault Index Terms: 8100, 8011, 8108, 8109, 8175 Keywords: Pamir, gneiss domes, collision, extension, thermochronology, exhumation This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/tect.20050