Abstract: Major Changes in East Asian Climate in the Mid-Pliocene: Triggered By the Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau or Global Cooling? (2014 AGU Fall Meeting)

Major Changes in East Asian Climate in the Mid-Pliocene: Triggered By the Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau or Global Cooling?

Junyi Ge^1,2, Ying Dai³, Zhongshi Zhang⁴, Deai Zhao¹, Qin Li¹, Yan Zhang¹, Liang Yi⁵, Frank Oldfield⁶ and Zhengtang Guo¹, (1)Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (5)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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