[PDF][PDF] Why 'the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau'is a myth

RA Spicer, T Su, PJ Valdes, A Farnsworth… - National Science …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The often-used phrase 'the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau'implies a flat-surfaced Tibet rose as a
coherent entity, and that uplift was driven entirely by the collision and northward movement …

Paleogeography control of Indian monsoon intensification and expansion at 41 Ma

X Fang, M Yan, W Zhang, J Nie, W Han, F Wu, C Song… - Science Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
As a crucial part of the Asian monsoon stretching from tropical India to temperate East Asia,
the Indian monsoon (IM) contributes predominant precipitation over Asian continent …

Formation of the First Bend in the late Eocene gave birth to the modern Yangtze River, China

H Zheng, PD Clift, M He, Z Bian, G Liu, X Liu… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The First Bend on the Yangtze River (China), the point where the river ceases
flowing toward the south and heads toward the northeast, has been one of the most strongly …

[HTML][HTML] India indenting Eurasia: A brief review and new data from the Yongping basin on the SE Tibetan Plateau

T Yang, Z Yan, C Xue, D Xin, M Dong - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Successive indentations of Eurasia by India have led to the Tibet-Himalaya E–W orthogonal
collision belt and the SE Tibetan Plateau N–S oblique collision belt along the frontal and …

New early oligocene zircon U-Pb dates for the 'Miocene'Wenshan Basin, Yunnan, China: Biodiversity and paleoenvironment

Y Tian, RA Spicer, J Huang, Z Zhou, T Su… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The sedimentary basins of Yunnan, Southwest China, record detailed histories of Cenozoic
paleoenvironmental change. They track regional tectonic and palaeobiological evolution …

[HTML][HTML] The topographic evolution of the Tibetan Region as revealed by palaeontology

RA Spicer, T Su, PJ Valdes, A Farnsworth… - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau was built through a succession of Gondwanan terranes
colliding with Asia during the Mesozoic. These accretions produced a complex Paleogene …

Thrusting, exhumation, and basin fill on the western margin of the South China block during the India-Asia collision

K Cao, PH Leloup, G Wang, W Liu, G Mahéo… - GSA …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The pattern and timing of deformation in southeast Tibet resulting from the early stages of
the India-Asia collision are crucial factors to understand the growth of the Tibetan Plateau …

Role of the early Miocene Jinhe-Qinghe thrust belt in the building of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau topography

C Zhu, G Wang, PH Leloup, K Cao, G Mahéo, Y Chen… - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the role of southeastern Tibetan thrust faults in the development of plateau
topography is key to our assessment of the geodynamic processes shaping continental …

Paleogene Sedimentary Records of the Paleo‐Jinshajiang (Upper Yangtze) in the Jianchuan Basin, Yunnan, SW China

M He, H Zheng, PD Clift, Z Bian, Q Yang… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cenozoic surface uplift of Tibetan Plateau has driven the birth and reorganization of large
river systems in Asia. The development of the Yangtze River, closely linked to plateau uplift …

[HTML][HTML] The Late Cretaceous source-to-sink system at the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Insights from the provenance of the Lanping Basin

L Wang, L Shen, C Liu, K Chen, L Ding, C Wang - Geoscience Frontiers, 2021 - Elsevier
The surface uplift of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and its geomorphology evolution has triggered
aridification of Asia's interior and drainage development at the eastern margin of the plateau …