Late Oligocene-early Miocene birth of the Taklimakan Desert

As the world’s second largest sand sea and one of the most important dust sources to the global aerosol system, the formation of the Taklimakan Desert marks a major environmental event in central Asia during the Cenozoic. Determining when and how the desert formed holds the key to better understandi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zheng, H., Wei, X., Tada, R., Clift, P., Wang, B., Jourdan, Fred, Wang, P., He, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31414