Interactions between midlatitude westerlies and the Pamir–Tian Shan mountains
significantly impact hydroclimate patterns in Central Asia today, and they played an …

Inner Asia underwent dramatic changes in sea-land distributions and paleoenvironment in
the Cenozoic that were marked by the westward retreat and finally demise of the proto …

Abstract The Tajik Basin is now located to the west of the Pamirs, but it formerly connected
with the Tarim Basin, occupied by a large epicontinental sea (proto-Paratethys Sea) once …

Cenozoic sedimentary rocks in the Tajik Basin record the history of retreat of the Paratethys
from central Asia, tectonic activity within the surrounding Pamir and Tian Shan mountains …

Abstract The Kyzylkum Desert, as a transition area of different dust source in Central Asia,
provides and reserves a large amount of dust transported by different atmospheric …

Abstract The Tajik Basin is an intermontane depression between the mountain ranges of
Tian Shan, Pamir, and Hindukush, which is located in the northwestern part of the India-Asia …

Sediments deposited into foreland basins can provide valuable insights related to the
geological evolution of their hinterlands. Located in the peripheral foreland of the South …

The uplift history of the Pamir-Tian Shan orogens remains debated, and is crucial to
understanding the aridification of Central Asia. To address this question, we performed …

How and when the Pamir formed remains an open question. This study explores Pamir
tectonics recorded in a sedimentary section in the eastern Tajik Basin. A prominent …

The Tajik basin and southwestern Tian Shan constitute the northwestern tip of the India‐Asia
collision zone. Basin inversion formed the thin‐skinned Tajik fold‐thrust belt, outlined by …