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Climate-Human interaction over the Iranian Plateau during the Upper Pleistocene-Holocene: A review

During the past two decades an array of studies have shed light on potential links between the evolution of Hominids as well as Human dispersal out of Africa and episodes of abrupt climate change. Although archaeological evidences suggest that anatomically modified humans appeared in Africa between 200 and 150 ky ago, the timing of the early humans migration out of Africa remained unclear. Stra...

Deep mantle forces and the uplift of the Colorado Plateau

[1] We introduce a quantitative model of global mantle convection that reconstructs the detailed motion of a warm mantle upwelling over the last 30 Ma towards the interior of the southwestern USA from observed present-day mantle heterogeneity. The onset and evolution of uplift in the central Basin and Range province and Colorado Plateau during this time is determined by tracking the topographic...

Dynamic subsidence and uplift of the Colorado Plateau

We use inverse models of mantle convection to explore the vertical evolution of the Colorado Plateau. By satisfying multiple constraints (seismic tomography, stratigraphy in the western United States and Great Plains, and other structural and volcanic data adjacent to the plateau), the model provides predictions on the continuous history of Colorado Plateau vertical motion since 100 Ma. With th...

Sandal types and Archaic prehistory on the Colorado Plateau.

Present‐day motion and deformation of the Colorado Plateau

[1] We analyze data from continuous GPS stations in the southwes te rn Uni ted Sta tes and present the f i r s t observations of a systematic motion of the Colorado Plateau region. Relative to a North America‐fixed reference frame, westward velocities increase rapidly across the Wasatch fault system, which comprises the plateau’s northwestern margin, but increase more gradually between the Grea...