The fluvial terrace sequence in eastern Qilian Mountains is a record of periodic uplift events of the Tibetan Plateau. Based on paleomagnetic dating, thermolumines-cence dating, radio carbon dating and loess-paleosol se-quence on terraces, we preliminarily determine the ages of five major terraces of the Shagou River, northern side of the QiUan Mountains. The ages of five terraces were about 830, 418, 250, 140 and 10 ka, respectively. Analysis on character-istics of terraces show that five major terraces were mainly tectonic genesis. Therefore, five major terraces recorded five strong rising events in the Qilian Mountains during the past 830 ka. The ages of those rising events are about the same as those terraces formation. Sub-terraces, constituting a main terrace, were perhaps mainly formed by climatic changes.