Late Miocene-Quaternary rapid stepwise uplift of the NE Tibetan Plateau and its effects on climatic and environmental changes

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 400-423

  Li, Jijun ^a   Fang, Xiaomin ^a,b   Song, Chunhui ^a   Pan, Baotian ^a   Ma, Yuzhen ^a,c   Yan, Maodu ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climatic and environmental changes; Late Miocene Quaternary; NE Tibetan Plateau; Tectonic uplifts; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LATE MIOCENE-QUATERNARY; NE TIBETAN PLATEAUX; TECTONIC UPLIFT; YELLOW RIVER;

TECTONICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84901827101     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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