Abrupt uplift of Tibetan Plateau at the end of early Pleistocene and Australasian impact event |
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| Authors: | REN Shoumai LIU Yongjiang GE Xiaohong Strategic Research Center of Oil & Gas Resources Ministry of L & Resources Beijing China College of Earth Sciences Jilin University Changchun China |
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| Institution: | REN Shoumai 1,LIU Yongjiang 2 , GE Xiaohong 2 1. Strategic Research Center of Oil & Gas Resources,Ministry of L, & Resources,Beijing 100034,China 2. College of Earth Sciences,Jilin University,Changchun 130061,China |
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| Abstract: | The latest sharp uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent mountains occurred at the end of the early Pleistocene. The uplift of the Plateau resulted from Late Mesozoic--Cenozoic compressional structure due to the subduction of the Indian Plate beneath the Asian continent. This event definitively effected the formation of basin-mountain relief, Cenozoic basin deformation, large scale aridity and desertification of western China. The Australasian meteorites impact event happened ca. 0.8 Ma ago, located in t... |
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| Keywords: | abrupt uplift Tibetan Plateau early Pleistocene |
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