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 …

Rapid incision of the Mekong River in the middle Miocene linked to monsoonal precipitation

J Nie, G Ruetenik, K Gallagher, G Hoke… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The uplift of orogenic plateaus has been assumed to be coincident with the fluvial incision of
the gorges that commonly cut plateau margins. The Mekong River, which drains the eastern …

Correlation of Himalayan exhumation rates and Asian monsoon intensity

PD Clift, KV Hodges, D Heslop, R Hannigan… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Although most data suggest that the India–Eurasia continental collision began∼ 45–55 Myr
ago, the architecture of the Himalayan–Tibetan orogen is dominated by deformational …

What controlled Mid–Late Miocene long-term aridification in Central Asia?—Global cooling or Tibetan Plateau uplift: A review

Y Miao, M Herrmann, F Wu, X Yan, S Yang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Debate continues over whether global cooling or uplift of the Tibetan Plateau provided the
first-order driver for the aridification (moisture levels) of Central Asia throughout the Mid …

The metamorphic and magmatic record of collisional orogens

OM Weller, CM Mottram, MR St-Onge… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Cenozoic Himalaya-Tibet orogen is generally regarded as the archetypal
continental collision zone and is often used as an analogue for interpreting ancient orogenic …

A major reorganization of Asian climate by the early Miocene

ZT Guo, B Sun, ZS Zhang, SZ Peng, GQ **ao… - Climate of the …, 2008 - cp.copernicus.org
The global climate system experienced a series of drastic changes during the Cenozoic. In
Asia, these include the climate transformation from a zonal pattern to a monsoon-dominated …

Development of the East Asian monsoon: mineralogical and sedimentologic records in the northern South China Sea since 20 Ma

S Wan, A Li, PD Clift, JBW Stuut - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2007 - Elsevier
We here reconstruct the past change of the East Asian monsoon since 20 Ma using samples
from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1146 in the northern South China Sea based on a …

Rifted margin architecture and crustal rheology: reviewing Iberia-Newfoundland, central South Atlantic, and South China Sea

S Brune, C Heine, PD Clift… - Marine and petroleum …, 2017 - Elsevier
Crustal rheology controls the style of rifting and ultimately the architecture of rifted margins.
Here we review the formation of three magma-poor margin pairs, Iberia-Newfoundland, the …