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 …

Links between tectonics and regional climate have been extensively studied in Asia.
However, despite decades of research, the relative roles of tectonics and global climate in …

Views differ on the uplift history of the SE Tibetan Plateau and causal geodynamic
mechanisms, yet reliable age-constrained paleoaltimetry in this region could test growth …

Ecosystems in arid areas are fragile and are easily disturbed by various natural and human
factors. The purpose of this study is to clarify the hydrological and ecological processes of …

Deuterium excess (d-excess) is a second-order stable isotope parameter measured in
meteoric water to understand both the source of precipitation and the evolution of moisture …

Land degradation has become a catastrophic global environmental issue. The current status
of land degradation and changing trends of land remain unclear on the Qinghai-Tibet …

River contains plenty of information on hydrological cycle. The water stable isotope
approach is a powerful tool to unravel the hydrological processes such as river water …

The new excess term of the triple oxygen isotope composition in meteoric water, expressed
as∆′ 17 O, is conceived to track the component of kinetic fractionation in the water cycle …

Abstract The Qaidam Basin in the core area of arid Inner Asia has been considered
undergoing continuous aridification over the Cenozoic. However, the Qaidam Basin is …

Abstract The endorheic Tibetan Plateau (ETP), which consists of all the endorheic basins of
the Tibetan Plateau (TP), has exhibited an overall mass gain in recent decades. However …