Why ‘the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ is a myth  

作　　者：Robert A.Spicer Tao Su Paul J.Valdes Alexander Farnsworth Fei-Xiang Wu Gongle Shi Teresa E.V.Spicer Zhekun Zhou 

机构地区：[1]CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology,Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Mengla 666303,China [2]Center of Plant Ecology,Core Botanical Gardens,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Mengla 666303,China [3]School of Environment,Earth and Ecosystem Sciences,The Open University,Milton Keynes MK76AA,UK [4]School of Geographical Sciences,University of Bristol,Bristol BS81SS,UK [5]Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins,Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100044,China [6]State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy,Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Nanjing 210008,China

出　　处：《National Science Review》2021年第1期152-170,共19页国家科学评论（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(STEP);Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(2019QZKK0705);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(41922010 and 41872006);the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS(XDA20070301,XDA20070203 and XDB26000000);the XTBG International Fellowship for Visiting Scientists to R.A.S.;the NSFC–NERC(Natural Environment Research Council of the United Kingdom)Joint Research Program(41661134049 and NE/P013805/1);the CAS 135 Program(2017XTBG-F01)。

摘　　要：The often-used phrase‘the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’implies a flat-surfaced Tibet rose as a coherent entity,and that uplift was driven entirely by the collision and northward movement of India.Here,we argue that these are misconceptions derived in large part from simplistic geodynamic and climate modeling,as well as proxy misinterpretation.The growth of Tibet was a complex process involving mostly Mesozoic collisions of several Gondwanan terranes with Asia,thickening the crust and generating complex relief before the arrival of India.In this review,Earth system modeling,paleoaltimetry proxies and fossil finds contribute to a new synthetic view of the topographic evolution of Tibet.A notable feature overlooked in previous models of plateau formation was the persistence through much of the Cenozoic of a wide east–west orientated deep central valley,and the formation of a plateau occurred only in the late Neogene through compression and internal sedimentation.

关 键 词：Tibet PALEOALTIMETRY PALEOGEOGRAPHY PALEONTOLOGY HIMALAYA 

分 类 号：P542[天文地球—构造地质学]