Pre-Miocene birth of the Yangtze River

Pre-Miocene birth of the Yangtze River

The development of fluvial systems in East Asia is closely linked to the evolving topography following India–Eurasia collision. Despite this, the age of the Yangtze River system has been strongly debated, with estimates ranging from 40 to 45 Ma, to a more recent initiation around 2 Ma. Here, we pres...

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Main Authors: Zheng, H., Clift, P., Wang, P., Tada, R., Jia, J., He, M., Jourdan, Fred
Format: Journal Article
Published: PNAS 2013
Subjects:
provenance
Asian monsoon
Yangtze gravel
drainage capture
Subei Basin
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38075

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