the archaeological mound of sofalin south of the alborz mountains of northern iran (eastern rey plain) sheds considerablelight on at least four problems connected with the emergence of complex societies in this part of iran. the first, it helpsfill a chronological gap in an important archaeological sequence by revealing a previously unidentified late fourth andthird millennium b.c. sequence of ...

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...

Twelve proto-Elamite tablets and fragments were found during the 2006-07 excavation at Tape Sofalin in the northernCentral Iranian Plateau. The form and content of these tablets is entirely consistent with that of the standard and late proto-Elamite tablets from Susa, except TSF 11, which we date to the Susa II/GodinV Period. Although all of the inscribedobjects from Tape Sofalin published here...

The Manihiki Plateau is an elevated oceanic volcanic plateau that was formed mostly in Early Cretaceous time by hotspot activity. We analyze new seismic reflection data acquired on cruise KIWI 12 over the High Plateau region in the southeast of the plateau, to look for direct evidence of the location of the heat source and the timing of uplift, subsidence and faulting. These data are correlated...

[1] High topography in central Asia is perhaps the most fundamental expression of the Cenozoic Indo-Asian collision, yet anunderstandingof the timingandratesofdevelopmentof theTibetan Plateau remains elusive. Here we investigate the Cenozoic thermal historiesofrocksalongtheeasternmarginof theplateauadjacent to the Sichuan Basin in an effort to determine when the steep topographic escarpment tha...

Theories of late Cenozoic climate cooling assume that central Asian aridification and high dust accumulation rates in the Chinese Loess Plateau and the North Pacific Ocean are genetically related. On the basis of detailed sediment provenance analysis, we show that high dust accumulation rates in the Chinese Loess Plateau and the North Pacific Ocean during the late Miocene-Pliocene were mainly c...

Laser magnetic resonance spectroscopy (LMRS) is a sensitive and isotope-selective technique for determining low concentrations of gaseous free radicals with high time resolution. We used this technique to analyze the nitric oxide (NO) concentration profile while simultaneously measuring the flow and expired volume during several single breathing cycles. Eight healthy, nonallergic volunteers wer...

[1] High topography in central Asia is perhaps the most fundamental expression of the Cenozoic Indo-Asian collision, yet anunderstandingof the timingandratesofdevelopmentof theTibetan Plateau remains elusive. Here we investigate the Cenozoic thermal historiesofrocksalongtheeasternmarginof theplateauadjacent to the Sichuan Basin in an effort to determine when the steep topographic escarpment tha...

Previous studies have demonstrated that fecundity, like mortality, plateaus at late ages in cohorts of Drosophila melanogaster. Although evolutionary theory can explain the decline and plateau in cohort fecundity at late ages, it is conceivable that lifelong heterogeneity in individual female fecundity is producing these plateaus. For example, consistently more fecund females may die at earlier...