U-Pb dating of detrital zircons from the pebbly siltstone at the top of the Tereeken Formation yielded the youngest zircon ages of 629±8 Ma, representing the maximum depositional age of the Tereekan glaciation. This result indicates that the Tereeken glaciation might be correlated with the Nantuo glaciation in the Yangtze Platform and the global Elatina or Marinoan glaciation. The remaining older zircons fall into three age-groups: 718-887 Ma, 1822-2092 Ma and 2345-2613 Ma, indicating three main Precambrian magmatic events in the Quruqtagh area.