Constant elevation of southern Tibet over the past 15 million years

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6923, 2003, Pages 622-624

  Spicer, Robert A ^a   Harris, Nigel B W ^a   Widdowson, Mike ^a   Herman, Alexel B ^b   Guo, Shuangxing ^c   Valdes, Paul J ^d   Wolfe, Jack A ^e   Kelley, Simon P ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THERMAL EFFECTS;

LITHOSPHERE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CRUSTAL THICKENING; ELEVATION; GEODYNAMICS; PALEOTEMPERATURE; UPLIFT;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; OBSERVATION; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA;

EID: 0037421912     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01356     Document Type: Article

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