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)。
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...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41602189&41330103);the Cradle Plan of China University of Geosciences(Grant No.CUGL170403)
Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraethers(GDGTs)serve as important tools for the quantitative reconstruction of paleoclimate and paleoecology in both continental and marine environments.Previous studies of GDGTs in the te...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB03020000;XDB03010000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41430102;41490615;and 41472207);the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2012CB821906)
Over the last two decades, many quantitative paleoaltimetry reconstructions of the Tibetan Plateau have been published, but they are still preliminary and controversial, although several approaches have been combined ...
The MBT/CBT (Methylation Index of Branched Tetraethers/Cyclisation ratio of Branched Tetraether) proxy, a terrestrial paleothermometer based on bacterial branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers CoGDGTs), was...
supported by National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2011CB808800);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41130207);‘111’Project(Grant No.B08030)
The temperature gradient along the altitude transect of Mt. Jianfengling provides a good opportunity to establish and evaluate the microbial lipid-based environmental proxies. The soils collected from 14 different alt...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40972084);the US National Science Foundation(EAR-0911331)
Eastern China is made of a number of large and small continental fragments throughout late Paleozoic and Mesozoic time,and is still the best natural laboratory for examining kinematic models of continent tectonics.The...