Cenozoic basin sediments around the Tibetan Plateau are valuable archives that can be
used to reveal long-term interactions among tectonics, climate and weathering. However,
the reconstruction of silicate weathering histories in this tectonically active region is
consistently hindered by the presence of frequently embedded conglomerate and sandstone
in the long sedimentary sequences. Here, we present detailed geochemical compositions of
the clay components of the sediments in the Huaitoutala section (ca. 15.3–1.8 Ma) of the …