Mountains, erosion and the carbon cycle

RG Hilton, AJ West - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Mountain building results in high erosion rates and the interaction of rocks with the
atmosphere, water and life. Carbon transfers that result from increased erosion could control …

Outward-growth of the Tibetan Plateau during the Cenozoic: A review

C Wang, J Dai, X Zhao, Y Li, SA Graham, D He, B Ran… - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
The surface uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) offers a key testing ground for
evaluating models of collisional tectonics and holds important implications for processes …

Tectonic forcing of late Cenozoic climate

ME Raymo, WF Ruddiman - nature, 1992 - nature.com
Global cooling in the Cenozoic, which led to the growth of large continental ice sheets in
both hemispheres, may have been caused by the uplift of the Tibetan plateau and the …

Lithium isotope history of Cenozoic seawater: changes in silicate weathering and reverse weathering

S Misra, PN Froelich - science, 2012 - science.org
Weathering of uplifted continental rocks consumes carbon dioxide and transports cations to
the oceans, thereby playing a critical role in controlling both seawater chemistry and climate …

Raising tibet

TM Harrison, P Copeland, WSF Kidd, AN Yin - Science, 1992 - science.org
Thermochronologic, sedimentologic, oceanographic, and paleoclimatic studies suggest that
rapid uplift and unroofing of southern Tibet began about 20 million years ago and that the …

Neoproterozoic variations in the C-isotopic composition of seawater: stratigraphic and biogeochemical implications

AJ Kaufman, AH Knoll - Precambrian research, 1995 - Elsevier
The recent proliferation of stratigraphic studies of δ13C variation in carbonates and organic
C in later Neoproterozoic and basal Cambrian successions (∼ 850-530 Ma) indicates a …

Late Mesozoic tectonic evolution and growth of the Tibetan plateau prior to the Indo-Asian collision

KJ Zhang, YX Zhang, XC Tang, B **a - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The elevation of the Tibetan plateau is a revolutionary event in the Earth history, which
resulted in change not only of Cenozoic regional and global climate but also of monsoon …

Timing of India‐Asia collision: Geological, biostratigraphic, and palaeomagnetic constraints

Y Najman, E Appel, M Boudagher‐Fadel… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A range of ages have been proposed for the timing of India‐Asia collision; the range to some
extent reflects different definitions of collision and methods used to date it. In this paper we …

Strontium isotopes as tracers of ecosystem processes: theory and methods

RC Capo, BW Stewart, OA Chadwick - Geoderma, 1998 - Elsevier
The strontium (Sr) isotope method can be a powerful tool in studies of chemical weathering
and soil genesis, cation provenance and mobility, and the chronostratigraphic correlation of …

[PDF][PDF] Geocarb III: A Revised Model of Atmospheric CO2 over Phanerozoic Time

RA Berner, Z Kothavala - American Journal of Science, 2001 - ajsonline.org
Revision of the GEOCARB model (Berner, 1991, 1994) for paleolevels of atmospheric CO~
2~, has been made with emphasis on factors affecting CO~ 2~ uptake by continental …