Expansion of the Tibetan Plateau during the Neogene

Weitao Wang; Wenjun Zheng; Peizhen Zhang; Qiang Li; Eric Kirby; Daoyang Yuan; Dewen Zheng; Caicai Liu; Zhicai Wang; Huiping Zhang; Jianzhang Pang

doi:10.1038/ncomms15887

Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Expansion of the Tibetan Plateau during the Neogene

Weitao Wang,
Wenjun Zheng,
Peizhen Zhang,
Qiang Li,
Eric Kirby,
Daoyang Yuan,
Dewen Zheng,
Caicai Liu,
Zhicai Wang,
Huiping Zhang,
Jianzhang Pang

Affiliations

Weitao Wang: State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration
Wenjun Zheng: State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration
Peizhen Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration
Qiang Li: Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Eric Kirby: State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration
Daoyang Yuan: Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration
Dewen Zheng: State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration
Caicai Liu: State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration
Zhicai Wang: Institute of Earthquake Engineering, Shandong Earthquake Administration
Huiping Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration
Jianzhang Pang: State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15887
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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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 north at 12 Ma.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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