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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ruddiman, W. F.
• Prell, W. L.
• Raymo, M. E.

Titel

Late Cenozoic uplift in southern Asia and the American West: Rationale for general circulation modeling experiments

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Geophysical Research, Washington, DC, 1989-12, Vol.94 (D15), p.18379-18391

Ort / Verlag

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1989

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Geologic evidence suggests significant increases in uplift rates and absolute elevation in several areas during the late Cenozoic, especially in the last 10 m.y. Regions of major uplift include the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan Mountains of southern Asia; and the Sierra Nevada, Colorado Plateau, Basin and Range, Rocky Mountains, and High Plains of the American west. Uplift occurred at a scale large enough to affect regional and global climate in a number of ways, several of which we evaluate by General Circulation Model experiments in accompanying papers.