… provide great potential for understanding the tectonic history, paleoclimatic changes, and …
the pollen record from the KC-1 core for the interval covering the later Early to Late Miocene (18…

… , the KC-1 core represents the middle to late Miocene, and … thermophilic pollen and the
deep-sea oxygen isotope records … are both from southwest to northeast passing the KC-1 core). …

… Eastward migration of the Qaidam Basin and its implications … The KC-1 core is involved in
this study with the sediment age … spores concentrations; (c) Total pollen concentrations [28] ; (d…

… -and-fold belt to the northeast, and the Eastern Kunlun thrust belt … 18 Ma and 14 Ma in the
KC-1 core (see Fig. 1 for location), … Qaidam Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau, and implications …

… Theoretical considerations and global climate modelling … of folds and the locations of the
Honggouzi section and core KC-1. … pollen and isotope records from the nearby Linxia Basin, …

… This paper reports the analysis of two cores: KC-1 and SG-3. … the northern Tibetan Plateau,
we argue that the Qaidam Basin … , FL, and Zhao, ZJ: Miocene vegetation and climatic changes …

… available for the westernmost (KC-1) site (Miao et al., 2011). The KC-1 core was drilled to
a … Summarizing our results, the arbors recorded in the pollen spectra of the Qaidam Basin …

… across the Qaidam Basin on the northeast Tibetan Plateau, … KC-1 well, drilled at the
depo-center of the western Qaidam … combined effects of both global cooling and tectonic uplifts. …

… c Saturated ketone contents from the KC-1 core 27 . d … We consider that the evaporative
effect could not account for … Both isotopes and plant pollen/fossils, the two main paleoaltimeters …

Frontiers | Eocene to Miocene paleoclimate reconstruction of the northern Tibetan Plateau:
constraints from mineralogy, carbon and oxygen isotopes of lacustrine carbonates in the …