financially supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No.2019QZKK0901);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42020104007,41941016);the China Geological Survey(Grant No.DD20221630)。
Numerous studies dated glacial deposits within the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen.While most focus on young deposits,i.e.,younger than the Last Glacial Maximum(LGM or Marine oxygen Isotope Stage(MIS)-2,~20 ka),older moraine...
supported by programs from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST) (Grant Nos. 2013FY111400 and 2012BAC19B07);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41190084);The first and second Chinese Glacier Inventory data were provided by an immediate past Project from MOST (Grant No. 2006FY110200)
Glacier retreat is not only a symbol of temperature and precipitation change, but a dominating factor of glacial lake changes in alpine regions, which are of wide concern for high risk of potential outburst floods. Of...
funded by the National Key Technology Research and Development Program;the Key Basic Research Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2012BAC19B07, 2013FY111400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41190084)
Glacial outburst floods(GLOFs) in alpine regions tend to be relatively complicated, multi-stage catastrophes, capable of causing significant geomorphologic changes in channel surroundings and posing severe threats t...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40771049);Knowledge Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.KZCX2-YW-GJ04);the Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No. 2006FY110200)
Kongur Mountain is the largest center of modern glaciation on the Pamir Plateau.During the glacial-interglacial cycles of the Quaternary,Kongur Mountain was extensively and repeatedly glaciated,and the glacial landfor...
funded by National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB951003);Opening Fund of Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology and Desert Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
The causes of the disappearance of the ancient town of Loulan in Xinjiang, China have been generally agreed to derive from two factors: human activities and natural factors (environmental variations). In this paper, t...