The Unnamed Plateau is a low plateau in the Western Desert of Egypt close to Libyan border, about halfway between Gilf Kebir north and Jebel Uweinat south. It little known seldom visited. In past, we have conducted three field surveys order assess its geomorphic features human presence Holocene. During our explorations found Paleozoic fossil plant, which allows ascribe sedimentary cover late (a...

The Holocene temperature discrepancy between paleoclimate reconstructions and climate model simulations—known as the conundrum—calls for new high-quality records at high elevations. Here, we present a quantitative mean annual air record based on site-specific branched glycerol dialkyl tetraethers calibration from small remote alpine lake southeastern Tibetan Plateau. reveals history comprising ...

Fecundity seems to stop declining and plateaus at low levels very late in Drosophila melanogaster populations. Here we test whether this apparent cessation of reproductive aging by a population, herein referred to as fecundity plateaus, is robust under various environmental influences: namely, male age and nutrition. The effect of male age on late age fecundity patterns was tested by supplying ...

Abstract. The sites of Hawelti–Melazo in the Tigray region northern Ethiopian Highlands is an archaeological hotspot related to D'mt kingdom (ca. 800–400 BCE). existence several monumental buildings, which have been excavated since 1950s, underline importance this area Ethio-Sabaean period. We investigated geomorphological and geological characteristics site its surroundings carried out sedimen...

Abstract We investigated interactions between structural deformation and surface processes in the Longmen Shan fold‐and‐thrust belt adjacent western Sichuan foreland basin (WSFB) eastern margin of Tibetan Plateau. The discrete‐element modeling (DEM) method was used to study influences various mechanical properties detachments syn‐tectonic erosion/deposition on evolution WSFB. DEM simulations de...

The highest elevation of the Tibetan Plateau, lying 5,700 m above sea level, occurs within the part of the Lhasa block immediately north of the India-Tibet suture zone (Yarlung Zangbo suture zone, YZSZ), being 700 m higher than the maximum elevation of more northern parts of the plateau. Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain this differentially higher topography and the rock uplift t...

[1] We present a record of lake-level changes from Hurleg Lake, a freshwater lake in the arid Qaidam Basin on the NE Tibetan Plateau, an area with few high-resolution paleoclimate records. The carbonate percentage and ostracode abundance show a consistent pattern with 200-year moisture oscillations during the last 1000 years. The moisture pattern in the Qaidam Basin is in opposite relation to t...

The hypothesis was tested that increased partial pressure of oxygen during the plateau (25 to 26 d of incubation for turkeys) and paranatal (27 to 28 d of incubation) stages of incubation may increase survival rates of turkeys from selected genetic lines. Partial pressure of oxygen inside the incubator cabinet was increased to 171 + 3 mm Hg of the barometric pressure during the plateau stage in...

The complex tectonic events and climatic oscillations in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), the largest and highest plateau in the world, are thought to have had great effects on the evolutionary history of the native plants. Of great interest is to investigate plant population genetic divergence in the QTP and its correlation with the geologic and climatic changes. We conducted a range-wide ph...

The North Qilian Shan, located in the northeastern front of Tibetan Plateau, is an ideal region to study expansion process plateau, which not clearly revealed due lack direct evidence and accurate age control. In Jiudong Basin (foreland basin Shan), a continuous late Cenozoic sedimentary sequence reliable chronostratigraphic framework (post-7 Ma) provide us material this process. study, we firs...