Middle Miocene to earliest Pliocene sedimentological and geochemical records of climate change in the western Qaidam Basin on the NE Tibetan Plateau

2014 ◽  
Vol 395 ◽  
pp. 67-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunhui Song ◽  
Sihu Hu ◽  
Wenxia Han ◽  
Tao Zhang ◽  
Xiaomin Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Qaidam Basin ◽  
Western Qaidam Basin ◽  
Ne Tibetan Plateau

A 7.3–1.6Ma grain size record of interaction between anticline uplift and climate change in the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

2015 ◽  
Vol 319 ◽  
pp. 40-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Lu ◽  
Xiaomin Fang ◽  
Erwin Appel ◽  
Jiuyi Wang ◽  
Christian Herb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Qaidam Basin ◽  
Western Qaidam Basin ◽  
Ne Tibetan Plateau

Clay minerals and isotopes of Pleistocene lacustrine sediments from the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

2018 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 382-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minghui Li ◽  
Shurui Sun ◽  
Xiaomin Fang ◽  
Chunhong Wang ◽  
Zhengrong Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Clay Minerals ◽  
Qaidam Basin ◽  
Lacustrine Sediments ◽  
Western Qaidam Basin ◽  
Ne Tibetan Plateau

scholarly journals Late Cenozoic continuous aridification in the western Qaidam Basin: evidence from sporopollen records

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1485-1508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. F. Miao ◽  
X. M. Fang ◽  
F. L. Wu ◽  
M. T. Cai ◽  
C. H. Song ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Qaidam Basin ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Late Cenozoic ◽  
Plateau Uplift ◽  
Western Qaidam Basin ◽  
Global Cooling ◽  
Tibetan Plateau Uplift

Abstract. Cenozoic climate changes in inner Asia provide a basis for understanding linkages between global cooling, the Tibetan Plateau uplift, and possibly the development of the East Asian monsoon. Based on the compiled palynological results from the western Qaidam Basin, this study reconstructed an 18 Ma record of changing vegetation and paleoclimates since the middle Miocene. Thermophilic taxa percentages were highest between 18 and 14 Ma and decreased after 14 Ma, corresponding closely with the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum (MMCO) between 18 and 14 Ma and the following global climatic cooling. After 3.6 Ma, the thermophilic taxa percentages further decreased, showing the inevitable relations with the ice-sheets enlargement in the North Hemisphere. During the same period of time, the increase in xerophytic taxa percentages and decrease in conifers percentages imply aridification in both the basin and surrounding mountains since 18 Ma. These results indicate that global cooling mainly controlled the climate change from a relative warm-wet stage to a cold-dry stage during the late Cenozoic at the western Qaidam Basin, and that the Tibetan Plateau uplift also contributed in contrast to the East Asian summer monsoon.

scholarly journals Magnetostratigraphy of drill-core SG-1b in the western Qaidam Basin (NE Tibetan Plateau) and tectonic implications

2014 ◽  
Vol 197 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weilin Zhang ◽  
Erwin Appel ◽  
Xiaomin Fang ◽  
Chunhui Song ◽  
Fabian Setzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Qaidam Basin ◽  
Drill Core ◽  
Tectonic Implications ◽  
Western Qaidam Basin ◽  
Ne Tibetan Plateau
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