This study provides a detailed magnetostratigraphic record of subsidence in the Linxia Basin, documenting a 27 Myr long sedimentary record from the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Deposition in the Linxia Basin began at V29 Ma and continued nearly uninterruptedly until V1.7 Ma. Increasing rates of subsidence between 29 and 6 Ma in the Linxia Basin suggest deposition in the foredeep po...

In this study, four well-exposed outcrops of the Asmari Fm in the southeastern part of the Izeh Zone of the Zagros Mountains were measured and sampled. In this region, the Asmari Fm is Oligocene to Early Miocene in age as determined by large benthic foraminifera. Based on depositional geometries, biogenic contents and lateral and vertical variations of facies, three depositional models are prop...

Abstract The Cenozoic Asian climate system experienced a transformation from zonal pattern to monsoon-dominant around the Paleogene-Neogene boundary. A series of dynamic mechanisms, such as uplift Tibetan Plateau, retreat Paratethys Sea, expansion South China and decreasing atmospheric CO2 content, has been suggested be responsible for pattern. However, role topographic growth in eastern rarely...

We examine the timing of deformation and exhumation of the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif in the western syntaxis of the Himalaya. This study presents geochronologic and thermochronologic data obtained from basement, shear zone, and intrusive units within the massif to reveal the Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the massif and to document the extent of the Plio-Pleistocene tectonic activity. These ...

Hominoids, or taxa identified as hominoids, are known from much of Africa, Asia, and Europe since the Late Oligocene. The earliest taxa, fromAfrica, resemble extant hominoids but share with them mainly primitive characters. Middle and Late Miocene taxa are clearly hominoids, and by the end of the Middle Miocene most can be attributed to either the pongine (Pongo) or hominine (African ape and hu...

Recent AU :2 high-resolution Oligocene–Miocene oxygen isotopic records revealed a relatively transient, ca. 2myr period, 1m amplitude cyclicity in isotopic values (Oi and Mi events, respectively). Intriguingly, it has been suggested that these isotopic excursions in oceanic dO were linked to ephemeral growth and decay in Antarctic ice sheets. A great deal of effort in the palaeoceanography comm...

Water mites of the Hygrobates fluviatilis-complex are common and often most abundant water mite group in running waters Palaearctic. This study provides first time-calibrated phylogeny this complex to date. Fossil-calibrated modelling reveals that recent ancestor H. originated Oligocene. Phylogenetic dating analyses show presence three monophyletic lineages within fluviatilis-complex, with turc...