Reply to Comment on “Rapid late Miocene rise of the Bolivian Altiplano: Evidence for removal of mantle lithosphere” by Garzione
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RO OF Reply to Comment on “Rapid late Miocene rise of the Bolivian Altiplano: Evidence for removal of mantle lithosphere” by Garzione et al. (2006), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 241 (2006) 543–556 Carmala N. Garzione ⁎, Peter Molnar , Julie C. Libarkin , Bruce J. MacFadden d a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA b Department of Geological Sciences and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA c Department of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA d Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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Rapid late Miocene rise of the Bolivian Altiplano: Evidence for removal of mantle lithosphere
The oxygen isotopic compositions of carbonates deposited in the northern Altiplano demonstrate a rapid change in late Miocene time, which we attribute to an increase in elevation. Rainfall samples over an elevation transect adjacent to the Altiplano of northern Bolivia display a systematic decrease in mean annual yO values and define a local yO vs. altitude gradient [R. Gonfiantini, M.-A. Roche...
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