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 …

Reorganization of Asian climate in relation to Tibetan Plateau uplift

F Wu, X Fang, Y Yang, G Dupont-Nivet, J Nie… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Reorganization of the Asian climate from one dominated by global planetary wind systems
to a regional monsoon climate is closely related to the surface uplift of the Tibetan Plateau …

[PDF][PDF] Surface rupture investigation of the 2022 Menyuan MS 6.9 earthquake, Qinghai, China: Implications for the fault behavior of the Lenglongling fault and regional …

S Han, ZH Wu, Y Gao, HF Lu - Journal of Geomechanics, 2022 - researchgate.net
The MS 6.9 Menyuan earthquake on January 8, 2022 occurred in the Qilian Mountain fault
block in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. The instrumental epicenter was …

[HTML][HTML] 2022年1月8日青海门源MS 6.9地震地表破裂考察的初步结果及对冷龙岭断裂活动行为和区域强震危险性的启示

韩帅, 吴中海, 高扬, 卢海峰 - 地质力学学报, 2022 - journal.geomech.ac.cn
2022 年1 月8 日青海门源MS 6.9 地震发生在青藏高原东北缘的祁连山断块内部,
仪器震中位于海原活动断裂系西段的冷龙岭断裂带上, 是该断裂系自1920 年海原8.5 …

Pulsed rise and growth of the Tibetan Plateau to its northern margin since ca. 30 Ma

W Wang, P Zhang, CN Garzione… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The onset of mountain building along margins of the Tibetan Plateau provides a key
constraint on the processes by which the high topography in Eurasia formed. Although …

The role of the uplift of the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan biotas

A Favre, M Päckert, SU Pauls, SC Jähnig… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity is unevenly distributed on Earth and hotspots of biodiversity are often
associated with areas that have undergone orogenic activity during recent geological history …

Large-number detrital zircon U-Pb ages reveal global cooling caused the formation of the Chinese Loess Plateau during Late Miocene

H Zhang, H Lu, J He, W Xie, H Wang, H Zhang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The formation and evolution of the landscape of the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) is
debated because of uncertainties regarding dust provenance. We present a quantitative …

Expansion of the Tibetan Plateau during the Neogene

W Wang, W Zheng, P Zhang, Q Li, E Kirby… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The appearance of detritus shed from mountain ranges along the northern margin of the
Tibetan Plateau heralds the Cenozoic development of high topography. Current estimates of …

Global monsoon dynamics and climate change

A Zhisheng, W Guoxiong, L Jianping… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
This article provides a comprehensive review of the global monsoon that encompasses
findings from studies of both modern monsoons and paleomonsoons. We introduce a …

Cenozoic evolution of the steppe-desert biome in Central Asia

N Barbolini, A Woutersen, G Dupont-Nivet… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The origins and development of the arid and highly seasonal steppe-desert biome in Central
Asia, the largest of its kind in the world, remain largely unconstrained by existing records. It …