The Age of the Taklimakan Desert-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Age of the Taklimakan Desert

Published:2006-06-16 Issue:5780 Volume:312 Page:1621-1621
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Sun Jimin¹,Liu Tungsheng¹

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Post Office Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China.

Abstract

The Taklimakan Desert is located in the foreland basin of the Tibetan Plateau. We report here the results of stratigraphic investigations of a 1626-meter-thick sequence with interbedded wind-blown silt from the southern marginal Taklimakan Desert. Because the studied section is located downwind of the desert, the eolian silt accumulation is closely linked to desert formation. Our new evidence indicates that shifting sand dunes prevailed in the Tarim Basin by at least 5.3 million years ago, as they do today. We attribute this event to late Cenozoic climatic deterioration, as well as to changes in atmospheric circulation induced by Tibetan Plateau uplift.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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