Saline lakes have developed worldwide throughout geological history and continue to
develop, is important for understanding deep-time climate evolution, lake evolution and …

The Asian interior contains the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB, the longest accretionary
orogen on Earth), the largest mid-latitude desert, and the most widespread late Cenozoic …

The Himalayan-Tibetan orogen culminated during the Cenozoic India--Asia collision, but its
geological framework and initial growth were fundamentally the result of multiple, previous …

INTRODUCTION The uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is critical for understanding
the evolution of the Asian monsoons and the geodynamic forces involved in collisional …

As the world's second largest sand sea and one of the most important dust sources to the
global aerosol system, the formation of the Taklimakan Desert marks a major environmental …

Plate-tectonic processes have long been thought to be the major cause of the Cenozoic
global carbon cycle, and global cooling by uplift of the Tibetan Plateau through enhancing …

There remains substantial debate concerning the relative roles of tectonics and of global
climate in pacing the evolution of aridity in Central Asia over the Cenozoic. Tibetan Plateau …

The Asian monsoons are triggered by complex interactions between the atmosphere, Asian
and African orography, and the surrounding oceans, resulting in highly seasonal climate …

The evolutionary history of Quercus section Cyclobalanopsis, a dominant lineage in East
Asian evergreen broadleaved forests (EBLFs), has not been comprehensively studied using …

Abstract The proto‐Paratethys Sea covered a vast area extending from the Mediterranean
Tethys to the Tarim Basin in western China during Cretaceous and early Paleogene …