Mid-Miocene sea level altitude of the Qaidam Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau

Mid-Miocene sea level altitude of the Qaidam Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau

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.

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Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-01-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00671-8

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00671-8

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