Although the development of Gobi Desert in central and eastern Asia has greatly affected
the regional and even the global climate, its precise origin and evolution have yet to be …

30 EAST ASIA of the horses. Tedford noted that conceptually Matthew's series is a temporal
arrangement entirely different from a chronostratigraphic system, but did not explicitly refer it …

The fossil teeth of land mammals offer a powerful tool to map the regional details of past
climate change in the terrestrial realm. We use mean plant-eater hypsodonty (molar crown …

Mammalian fossils, especially the Hipparion fauna, found in the Red Clay of the Loess
Plateau, are of immense value for reconstructing late Neogene paleoecology and …

Abstract The Weihe Basin, situated in the central part of Shaanxi Province between the
Qinling and Weibei Mountains, falls under the influence of the Asian monsoon system. The …

The Linxia Basin is situated in the southeastern part of Gansu Province, China, and it is a
flexural basin bounded by the Leijishan fault, North Qinling fault, and the Maxian mountain …

Abstract Late Miocene and Pliocene climate changes provide an analogue for
understanding linkages between variations in precipitation, the intensity of the Asian …

Abstract In the Linxia Basin on the northeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau, the Cenozoic
strata are very thick and well exposed. Abundant mammalian fossils are discovered in the …

The Miocene climate evolution in North China is preliminarily discussed by means of
comparisons in seven climate parameters quantitatively reconstructed by the Coexistence …

Stable carbon and oxygen isotope analyses were conducted on pedogenic carbonates
collected from a continuous, late Neogene terrestrial sequence located in Lantian, in the …