Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Determining the “best age” of individual grains from Usingle bondPb detrital zircon analyses
remains problematic, with the current system generally relying on an arbitrary cut-off age for …

The uplift of the Tibet Plateau (TP) during the Miocene is crucial to understanding the
evolution of Asian monsoon regimes and alpine biodiversity. However, the northern Tibet …

Detrital geochronology and thermochronology have emerged as primary methods of
reconstructing the tectonic and surficial evolution of the Earth over geological time …

Loess sequences of the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) compose one of the most complete
Neogene–Quaternary terrestrial paleoclimatic archives. Understanding the CLP's sediment …

Abstract Detrital zircon (DZ) U–Pb geochronology has improved the way geologists
approach questions of sediment provenance and stratigraphic age. However, there is …

Broken foreland basins are caused by crustal-scale contractional basement structures that
compartmentalize (or break) a contiguous retroarc or collisional foreland basin into smaller …

We test the hypothesis of a major Paleogene river draining the SE Tibetan Plateau and the
central modern Yangtze Basin that then flowed south to the South China Sea. We test this …

Accurately reconstructing the evolution of the Asian monsoon is predicated on
understanding the impact of temperature, precipitation, and tectonic paleogeography on …

The evolution of rivers is closely tied to basin tectonics and climate change. Consequently,
understanding the formation and evolution of large rivers (which can traverse diverse …