Ancient diets indicate significant uplift of southern Tibet after ca. 7 Ma

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 309-312

  Wang, Yang ^a,b   Deng, Tao ^c   Biasatti, Dana ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

C4 grasses; Carbon isotopes; Elevation; Fossils; Paleoclimate; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPES; FOSSILS; PALEOCLIMATE; ELEVATION; PALEOCLIMATES; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; SEA LEVEL; CARBON; MAMMALS; TOOTH ENAMEL;

CARBON; ISOTOPES;

FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; UPLIFT; CARBON ISOTOPE; CENOZOIC; COOLING; ELEVATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL; TOOTH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; HIMALAYAS;

EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 33645716618     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22254.1     Document Type: Article

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