Expansion of the Tibetan Plateau during the Neogene
The timing of mountain building along the Tibetan Plateau remains unclear. Here, the authors present new magnetostratigraphic and mammalian biostratigraphic data from sediments to show that mountain building at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau commenced at 25.5 Ma with a separate emergence in the nor...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-06-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15887 |