Late Miocene episodic lakes in the arid Tarim Basin, western China
Late Miocene episodic lakes in the arid Tarim Basin, western China
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Liu, Weiguo , Liu, Zhonghui , An, Zhisheng , Sun, Jimin , Chang, Hong , Wang, Ning , Dong, Jibao and Wang, Huanye
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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English
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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The Tibetan Plateau uplift and Cenozoic global cooling are thought to induce enhanced aridification in the Asian interior. Although the onset of Asian desertification is proposed to have started in the earliest Miocene, prevailing desert environment in the Tarim Basin, currently providing much of the Asian eolian dust sources, is only a geologicall...
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Late Miocene episodic lakes in the arid Tarim Basin, western China
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TN_cdi_pnas_primary_111_46_16292
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pnas_primary_111_46_16292
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.1410890111
