Biodiversity is unevenly distributed on Earth and hotspots of biodiversity are often
associated with areas that have undergone orogenic activity during recent geological history …

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 …

A common hypothesis for the rich biodiversity found in mountains is uplift-driven
diversification—that orogeny creates conditions favoring rapid in situ speciation of resident …

The growth and deformation history of the Qilian-Nan Shan thrust belt bounding the NE
Qaidam Basin figures importantly in testing models of Tibetan Plateau uplift during the India …

Thick Cenozoic deposits in the northwestern Qaidam Basin record erosion of the Altyn Tagh
and high terrain west of that basin and presumably the concurrent growth of the northeastern …

We report geochronologic, whole‐rock geochemical and Sr–Nd isotopic analyses of the
granites that are exposed to both the north and the inside of the Bangong–Nujiang Suture …

The radicine pond snails represent a species-rich and widely distributed group, many
species of which are key vectors of human and animal trematodoses. Here we clarify the …

To understand the magmatic and tectonic events in the Eastern Kunlun Range, we
conducted systematic zircon U–Pb geochronology, and paired zircon (ZHe) and apatite …

Abstract The India‐Asia collision resulted in the Cenozoic framework of faults, ranges, and
tectonic basins and the high topography of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, but how and …

Chemical weathering of continental silicates is a crucial geological process in regulating
Earth's long-term climate and participating in global carbon cycle. The increasing aridity and …