River Geomorphic Evolution Connected to Tectonics Around the First Bend of Yangtze River

The origin and formation time of the first bend are important scientific problems in the Yangtze River system and the evolution of the river system, even tectonic research around the southeastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. These problems have attracted the attention of many domestic and international scholars and they hold two different opinions. one is river capture hypothesis; another hypothesis is river natural adaptation to terrain. It is necessary to get reliable geological evidences and chronological data in order to reconstruct the evolution history of the Yangtze River. In the recent years, much work has been done to study the evolution history of the Yangtze River. Thus, it is possible now to integrate all the relevant chronological data and geological evidences to understand the evolution of Yangtze River.