同位素热年代学方法能够提供时间、温度、空间位置等综合信息，在造山历史研究、金属矿床成矿和抬升揭顶过程研究等方面均有巨大应用潜力。西天山东段造山带热年代学研究目前缺失200℃以上高温区和90℃以下更低温区内容，导致对造山带热演化历史和隆升剥露历史的认识很不完整，该段金属矿床热年代学研究程度更低。本项目拟运用同位素热年代学理论和技术手段对西天山东段造山带和金属矿床开展系统研究，揭示西天山东段造山带晚古生代以来所经历的热演化历史、隆升剥露历史及金属矿床形成、改造和揭顶过程，追索区内金属矿床成矿和造山事件的时间、空间及物质组分间的耦合关系，探讨造山作用对成矿事件的制约作用，为更深入了解西天山乃至中亚造山带地质演化过程，为认识西天山东段地区金属矿床成矿规律、进行成矿预测及实现区域找矿突破等提供新的科学依据，并尝试总结建立热年代学技术应用于造山带金属矿床研究特别是矿床抬升揭顶剥露过程研究的工作方法

Isotope thermochronology can provide comprehensive information on time, temperature, and spatial location; it also has great application potential in orogenic history research, metallic mineral deposits mineralization, and uplift-unroof process research. Until now, the lack of high temperature above 200℃and low temperature below 90℃ thermochronological research in eastern part of the Western Tianshan orogenic belt leads to incomplete understanding of orogenic belts thermal evolution and uplift-denudation history. The thermochronological research on metallic mineral deposits in this area is still in blank. Aiming at revealing the thermal evolution history, uplift and denudation history, metallic mineral deposits formation, and change and unroof process since the late Paleozoic, we intend to adopt isotope thermochronology theory and technology to do systematical research in eastern part orogenic belt and metallic mineral deposits of the Western Tianshan orogeny in this project.Furthermore, we search for the coupling relationship of time, space and material composition between metallogenesis and orogenic event, and investigate the orogenesis restrictive function to mineralization events. By all the research above, we expect to provide new scientific basis for insight into geological evolution of the Western Tianshan, especially the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, and to understand the regularity of ore formation, metallogenic prediction, and implementing regional prospecting breakthrough. We also try to establish working procedure of applying thermochronology technology to research on orogenic belt metallic mineral deposits especially on uplift and unroof process.