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 …

Abstract As the largest Mesozoic-Cenozoic terrestrial intermountain basin in the northern
Tibetan Plateau, the Qaidam Basin is an ideal basin to examine the influences of regional …

The deserts in north China are regarded as direct records of the process of inland Asian
aridification. Amongst these deserts, those proximal to the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) are …

Drying of the Asian interior has generally been linked to Tibetan Plateau uplift, retreat of the
Para-Tethys Sea and global cooling. However, lack of detailed aridification records hinders …

Intracontinental flexural (foreland) basin sediments are now frequently used as archives for
detailed paleoclimatic and sedimentary environmental reconstruction, fossil and …

Understanding the source to sink relationship through time between the Eastern Kunlun
Range, one of the major mountain belts in the northern Tibetan Plateau, and the actively …

The desertification history of inland Asia provides most direct evidence for Asian drying
history, but the formation ages of the most Asian deserts are not clear due to the lack of …

The loess-paleosol sequences of the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) are major paleoclimatic
archives which document the evolution of the East Asian Monsoon (EAM) and changes in …

Cenozoic climate changes in inner Asia provide a basis for understanding linkages between
global cooling, the Tibetan Plateau uplift, and possibly the development of the East Asian …

Abstract The Qaidam Basin is an internally drained basin located in the northeastern Tibetan
Plateau. Presently, over 50% of the basin floor exposes thick (> 1 km) sections of Pliocene …