Magnetostratigraphic record of the Late Miocene onset of the East Asian monsoon, and Pliocene uplift of northern Tibet

Qiang, Xiaoke; Li, Zheng‐Xiang; Powell, Christine; Zheng, Hongbo

doi:10.1016/s0012-821x(01)00281-3

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“…Climate model runs (e.g., [11][12][13][14][15] suggest that the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau alone would be enough to establish considerable drying of Central Asia and monsoon circulation in East Asia. The modeled results closely resemble the environmental changes that are observed around 7-8 Ma in South and East Asia (e.g., 5,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”

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Distribution history and climatic controls of the Late Miocene Pikermian chronofauna

Eronen¹,

Ataabadi²,

Micheels

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The Late Miocene development of faunas and environments in western Eurasia is well known, but the climatic and environmental processes that controlled its details are incompletely understood. Here we map the rise and fall of the classic Pikermian fossil mammal chronofauna between 12 and 4.2 Ma, using genus-level faunal similarity between localities. To directly relate land mammal community evolution to environmental change, we use the hypsodonty paleoprecipitation proxy and paleoclimate modeling. fossil mammals ͉ paleoclimate ͉ Pikermi ͉ similarity index

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Distribution history and climatic controls of the Late Miocene Pikermian chronofauna

Eronen¹,

Ataabadi²,

Micheels

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…For example, the climate changes in Asia during the late Miocene shown by some marine and continental records [2,3,7,19,[39][40][41][42] were usually considered as the result of strong TP uplift at the same time. The results of some studies also showed that during the middle and late Pliocene there were remarkable tectonic uplifts in the northern TP, which led to the intensification of the Asian monsoon and significantly increased variability of monsoon since Quaternary [3].…”

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Influence of the Tibetan Plateau uplift on the Asian monsoon-arid environment evolution

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As one of the most important geological events in Cenozoic era, the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) has had profound influences on the Asian and global climate and environment evolution. During the past four decades, many scholars from China and abroad have studied climatic and environmental effects of the TP uplift by using a variety of geological records and paleoclimate numerical simulations. The existing research results enrich our understanding of the mechanisms of Asian monsoon changes and interior aridification, but so far there are still a lot of issues that need to be thought deeply and investigated further. This paper attempts to review the research on the influence of the TP uplift on the Asian monsoon-arid environment, summarize three types of numerical simulations including bulk-plateau uplift, phased uplift and sub-regional uplift, and especially to analyze regional differences in responses of climate and environment to different forms of tectonic uplifts. From previous modeling results, the land-sea distribution and the Himalayan uplift may have a large effect in the establishment and development of the South Asian monsoon. However, the formation and evolution of the monsoon in northern East Asia, the intensified dryness north of the TP and enhanced Asian dust cycle may be more closely related to the uplift of the main body, especially the northern part of the TP. In this review, we also discuss relative roles of the TP uplift and other impact factors, origins of the South Asian monsoon and East Asian monsoon, feedback effects and nonlinear responses of climatic and environmental changes to the plateau uplift. Finally, we make comparisons between numerical simulations and geological records, discuss their uncertainties, and highlight some problems worthy of further studying.Tibetan Plateau, tectonic uplift, Asian monsoon, inland aridity, environmental evolution, geological record, numerical simulation Citation:Liu X D, Dong B W.

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“…Some scientists often, at least partly, attributed a variety of reconstructed earlier-than-Quaternary climate records in East Asian domain to the uplift of the TP based on available simulation results or inference. For instance, Qiang et al (2001) ascribed a relatively strong East Asian winter monsoon between 3.5 Ma and 3.1 Ma ago to the Pliocene uplift of the northwestern TP. Guo et al (2004) related the most important aridification event in Asian interior, at about 3.6 Ma ago, to an uplift of portions of the TP.…”

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Sensitivity of East Asian climate to the progressive uplift and expansion of the Tibetan Plateau under the mid-Pliocene boundary conditions

Jiang

Ding

Drange³

et al. 2008

Adv. Atmos. Sci.

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A global atmospheric general circulation model has been used to perform eleven idealized numerical experiments, i.e., TP00, TP10, · · · , TP100, corresponding to different percentages of the Tibetan Plateau altitude. The aim is to explore the sensitivity of East Asian climate to the uplift and expansion of the Tibetan Plateau under the reconstructed boundary conditions for the mid-Pliocene about 3 Ma ago. When the plateau is progressively uplifted, global annual surface temperature is gradually declined and statistically significant cooling signals emerge only in the Northern Hemisphere, especially over and around the Tibetan Plateau, with larger magnitudes over land than over the oceans. On the contrary, annual surface temperature rises notably over Central Asia and most parts of Africa, as well as over northeasternmost Eurasia in the experiments TP60 to TP100. Meanwhile, the plateau uplift also leads to annual precipitation augmentation over the Tibetan Plateau but a reduction in northern Asia, the Indian Peninsula, much of Central Asia, parts of western Asia and the southern portions of northeastern Europe. Additionally, it is found that an East Asian summer monsoon system similar to that of the present initially exists in the TP60 and is gradually intensified with the continued plateau uplift. At 850 hPa the plateau uplift induces an anomalous cyclonic circulation around the Tibetan Plateau in summertime and two anomalous westerly currents respectively located to the south and north of the Tibetan Plateau in wintertime. In the mid-troposphere, similarto-modern spatial pattern of summertime western North Pacific subtropical high is only exhibited in the experiments TP60 to TP100, and the East Asian trough is steadily deepened in response to the progressive uplift and expansion of the Tibetan Plateau.

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Magnetostratigraphic record of the Late Miocene onset of the East Asian monsoon, and Pliocene uplift of northern Tibet

Cited by 215 publications

References 35 publications

Distribution history and climatic controls of the Late Miocene Pikermian chronofauna

Distribution history and climatic controls of the Late Miocene Pikermian chronofauna

Influence of the Tibetan Plateau uplift on the Asian monsoon-arid environment evolution

Sensitivity of East Asian climate to the progressive uplift and expansion of the Tibetan Plateau under the mid-Pliocene boundary conditions

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