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 …

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 …

The role of paleogeography in Asian monsoon evolution: A review and new insights from climate modelling

D Tardif, AC Sarr, F Fluteau, A Licht, M Kaya… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Asian monsoons are triggered by complex interactions between the atmosphere, Asian
and African orography, and the surrounding oceans, resulting in highly seasonal climate …

[HTML][HTML] Triple-stage India-Asia collision involving arc-continent collision and subsequent two-stage continent-continent collision

J Yuan, C Deng, Z Yang, W Krijgsman, H Qin… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The enigmatic geodynamic processes involved in the India-Asia collision shape our
understanding of uplift and deformation of the Tibetan Plateau and the subsequent changes …

Qaidam Basin leaf fossils show northeastern Tibet was high, wet and cool in the early Oligocene

B Song, RA Spicer, K Zhang, J Ji, A Farnsworth… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Paleogene environment of today's semi-arid and arid Central Asia is poorly quantified
and knowledge of the paleoelevation of northern Tibet remains elusive, yet both are crucially …

Tectonic and climatic drivers of Asian monsoon evolution

JR Thomson, PB Holden, P Anand, NR Edwards… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Asian Monsoon rainfall supports the livelihood of billions of people, yet the relative
importance of different drivers remains an issue of great debate. Here, we present 30 million …

Cenozoic deformation of the Tarim Basin and surrounding ranges (**njiang, China): A regional overview

A Laborde, L Barrier, M Simoes, H Li, T Coudroy… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
With its central position between the Tibetan Plateau and the Tian Shan Range, the Tarim
Basin is a key element of the Cenozoic Asian orogenic system. However, a comprehensive …

Late Mesozoic–Cenozoic cooling history of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and its foreland derived from low-temperature thermochronology

C Wu, AV Zuza, J Li, PJ Haproff, A Yin, X Chen… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The growth history and formation mechanisms of the Cenozoic Tibetan Plateau are the
subject of an intense debate with important implications for understanding the kinematics …

Orbital variations as a major driver of climate and biome distribution during the greenhouse to icehouse transition

D Tardif, A Toumoulin, F Fluteau, Y Donnadieu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Recent studies suggest increasing sensitivity to orbital variations across the Eocene-
Oligocene greenhouse to icehouse climate transition. However, climate simulations and …

Cenozoic exhumation of the Tianshan as constrained by regional low-temperature thermochronology

Y Wang, J Zhang, X Huang, Z Wang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The Tianshan range, located in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB),
represents an excellent natural laboratory for investigating intracontinental deformation. The …