Timing and mechanisms of Tibetan Plateau uplift

L Ding, P Kapp, F Cai, CN Garzione, Z Xiong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The timing of the initial India–Asia collision and the mechanisms that led to the eventual
formation of the high (> 5 km) Tibetan Plateau remain enigmatic. In this Review, we describe …

[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 …

[PDF][PDF] Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses

P Kapp, PG DeCelles - American Journal of Science, 2019 - ajsonline.org
The Himalayan-Tibetan orogen culminated during the Cenozoic India--Asia collision, but its
geological framework and initial growth were fundamentally the result of multiple, previous …

Ancient orogenic and monsoon-driven assembly of the world's richest temperate alpine flora

WN Ding, RH Ree, RA Spicer, YW Xing - Science, 2020 - science.org
Origins of an alpine flora The evolution of high mountain floras is strongly influenced by
tectonic and climatic history. Ding et al. document the timing, tempo, and mode by which the …

A new biologic paleoaltimetry indicating Late Miocene rapid uplift of northern Tibet Plateau

Y Miao, X Fang, J Sun, W Xiao, Y Yang, X Wang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The uplift of the Tibet Plateau (TP) during the Miocene is crucial to understanding the
evolution of Asian monsoon regimes and alpine biodiversity. However, the northern Tibet …

Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO2

A Farnsworth, DJ Lunt, SA Robinson, PJ Valdes… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The East Asian monsoon plays an integral role in human society, yet its geological history
and controlling processes are poorly understood. Using a general circulation model and …

Quantifying the rise of the Himalaya orogen and implications for the South Asian monsoon

L Ding, RA Spicer, J Yang, Q Xu, F Cai, S Li… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We reconstruct the rise of a segment of the southern flank of the Himalaya-Tibet orogen, to
the south of the Lhasa terrane, using a paleoaltimeter based on paleoenthalpy encoded in …

No high Tibetan plateau until the Neogene

T Su, A Farnsworth, RA Spicer, J Huang, FX Wu… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The Late Paleogene surface height and paleoenvironment for the core area of the Qinghai-
Tibetan Plateau (QTP) remain critically unresolved. Here, we report the discovery of the …

A Middle Eocene lowland humid subtropical “Shangri-La” ecosystem in central Tibet

T Su, RA Spicer, FX Wu, A Farnsworth… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Tibet's ancient topography and its role in climatic and biotic evolution remain speculative
due to a paucity of quantitative surface-height measurements through time and space, and …

[HTML][HTML] The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: Methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data …

CJ Hollis, T Dunkley Jones… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
The early Eocene (56 to 48 million years ago) is inferred to have been the most recent time
that Earth's atmospheric CO 2 concentrations exceeded 1000 ppm. Global mean …