Rapid incision of the Mekong River in the middle Miocene linked to monsoonal precipitation

The uplift of orogenic plateaus has been assumed to be coincident with the fluvial incision of the gorges that commonly cut plateau margins. The Mekong River, which drains the eastern Qiangtang Terrane and southeastern Tibetan Plateau, is one of the ten largest rivers in the world by water and sedim...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nie, J., Ruetenik, G., Gallagher, K., Hoke, G., Garzione, C., Wang, W., Stockli, D., Hu, X., Wang, Z., Wang, Y., Stevens, T., Danišík, Martin, Liu, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2018
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160102427
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73207