Miocene C4 Grassland Expansion as Recorded by the Indus Fan

SJ Feakins, HM Liddy, L Tauxe, V Galy… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the late Miocene, grasslands spread across the forested floodplains of the Himalayan
foreland, but the causes of the ecological transition are still debated. Recent seafloor drilling …

Phased evolution and variation of the South Asian monsoon, and resulting weathering and surface erosion in the Himalaya–Karakoram Mountains, since late …

H Lu, R Liu, L Cheng, H Feng, H Zhang… - Geological …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We investigate the phased evolution and variation of the South Asian monsoon and
resulting weathering intensity and physical erosion in the Himalaya–Karakoram Mountains …

Monsoon-induced changes in surface hydrography of the eastern Arabian Sea during the early Pleistocene

RK Satpathy, S Steinke, AD Singh - Geological Magazine, 2020 - cambridge.org
Upper water column dynamics in the eastern Arabian Sea were reconstructed in order to
investigate changes in the activity of the South Asian/Indian monsoon during the early …

A late pleistocene sedimentation in the Indus fan, Arabian Sea, IODP site U1457

A Kumar, S Dutt, R Saraswat, AK Gupta, PD Clift… - Geological …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The intensity of turbidite sedimentation over long timescales is driven by sea-level change,
tectonically driven rock uplift and climatically modulated sediment delivery rates. This study …

Slowing rates of regional exhumation in the western Himalaya: Fission track evidence from the Indus Fan

P Zhou, A Carter, Y Li, PD Clift - Geological Magazine, 2020 - cambridge.org
We use apatite fission track ages from sediments recovered by the International Ocean
Discovery Program in the Laxmi Basin, Arabian Sea, to constrain exhumation rates in the …

Introduction—Scientific Drilling in the Indian Ocean: An Earth System Process Perspective

DK Pandey, N Nair, M Ravichandran - Dynamics of the Earth System …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) addresses the fundamental
questions about Earth's climate, deep life, geodynamics, and geohazards, through Earth's …