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

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 155-172

  Miao, Yunfa ^a,c   Herrmann, Mark ^b   Wu, Fuli ^c   Yan, Xiaoli ^c,d   Yang, Shengli ^c,e  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aridification; Central Asia; Global cooling; Long trend; Miocene; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; COOLING; LITERATURE REVIEW; MIOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREND ANALYSIS; UPLIFT; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84860856811     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.02.003     Document Type: Review

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