Late Miocene uplift of the NE Tibetan Plateau inferred from basin filling, planation and fluvial terraces in the Huang Shui catchment

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 88-89, Issue , 2012, Pages 10-19

  Wang, Xianyan ^a,b   Lu, Huayu ^a   Vandenberghe, Jef ^a,b   Zheng, Shaohua ^c   van Balen, Ronald ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fluvial terraces; Miocene uplift; Northeastern Tibetan Plateau; Peneplain

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FLUVIAL TERRACES; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LATE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; PENEPLAIN; SURFACE FORMATION; TECTONIC MOVEMENTS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

CATCHMENTS; RUNOFF; TECTONICS;

LANDFORMS;

BASIN FILL; BIOCHRONOLOGY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MIOCENE; PENEPLAIN; PLANATION; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84860528910     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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