Communications Earth & Environment (Jan 2023)
Mid-Miocene sea level altitude of the Qaidam Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau
- Yuanyuan Sun,
- Yu Liang,
- Hu Liu,
- Jun Liu,
- Junliang Ji,
- Xue Ke,
- Xiaobo Liu,
- Yuxin He,
- Huanye Wang,
- Bin Zhang,
- Yongsu Zhang,
- Guangsheng Zhuang,
- Junling Pei,
- Yongxiang Li,
- Cheng Quan,
- Jianxing Li,
- Jonathan C. Aitchison,
- Weiguo Liu,
- Zhonghui Liu
Affiliations
- Yuanyuan Sun
- Chengdu Center, China Geological Survey, Key Laboratory of Sedimentary Basin and Oil and Gas Resources, Ministry of Natural Resources
- Yu Liang
- Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
- Hu Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jun Liu
- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hefei University of Technology
- Junliang Ji
- State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences
- Xue Ke
- Institute of Geological Survey, China University of Geosciences
- Xiaobo Liu
- School of Earth Science and Resources, Chang’an University
- Yuxin He
- School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University
- Huanye Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Bin Zhang
- Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, China National Petroleum Corporation
- Yongsu Zhang
- Qinghai Oilfield, China National Petroleum Corporation
- Guangsheng Zhuang
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University
- Junling Pei
- Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
- Yongxiang Li
- State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
- Cheng Quan
- School of Earth Science and Resources, Chang’an University
- Jianxing Li
- Chengdu Center, China Geological Survey, Key Laboratory of Sedimentary Basin and Oil and Gas Resources, Ministry of Natural Resources
- Jonathan C. Aitchison
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland
- Weiguo Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhonghui Liu
- Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00671-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 4,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
The identification of marine alkenones and anomalously high carbonate carbon isotopic values in sediments suggest the Qaidam Basin in the northern Tibetan Plateau was uplifted from sea level to its present altitude since the Mid-Miocene.
