Over the last month and a half the UMBRELLA team has been in China collecting a series of new data across Guangdong, Hainan and Tibet. Arriving on the 17th April in Guangzhou the UK team met up with the Chinese team from Sun-Yat Sen University who are experts in plaeobiology and botany for a series …
The new research, co-authored by academics from Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Bristol’s School of Geographical Sciences, The Open University and Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences suggests that central Tibet must have been no higher than 2.3km with large lakes fringed with subtropical …
Some of the recent modelling work has been updated on our modelling page . Here we show an example of some of the exciting high resolution simulations of each geological stage that is being developed for the project. See high resolution animations and further details here: Model data The scope of the modelling work aims …
With the EGU conference 2019 just around the corner (10 January 2019, 13:00 CET) we would like to further publicise our session (CL1.08/BG2.34/GM5.7/SSP2.15) on the instrumental role Tibet has played on changing climate through the Cenozoic. Our session aims to bring together academics from many different disciplines from climate dynamics, vegetation/botany specialists and geologic/tectonic processes …
UK-China impact festival On Tuesday 8th November the UMBRELLA team was invited to be part of the first UK-China festival of science. This is event showcased the latest research being jointly developed collaboratively between both nations with the UMBRELLA-BETR project specially invited to showcase some of the latest cutting-edge work in the impact of climate …
September saw the UMBRELLA team all gather together in XTGB once again for a series of meeting’s, paper discussions and project targets, however we were also very excited to have a general meeting with the other two BETR projects (BETR – Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition & BETR – Eco-PT) joining us for a general meeting and workshop. This brought …
Our 4th trip in China reminded us just how wonderful the food is and especially how varied it can be from region to region due to the many different cultures and people who inhabit this wonderful country. After a long day collecting field samples it tastes even better too! Thus far we have been able …
The focus of this fieldwork was to pick up where we left off on the 2nd Fieldwork trip back in October 2017 to study three more Cenozoic basins in Yunnan. This time Jan Peter Mayser flew alone over to China on the 15.01.2018 and met up there with Bob Spicer, Tao Su, Huang Jian and …
23th – 25th – XTGB – Paul and Dan arrive – After a long journey and three flights from the UK both Paul Valdes and Dan Lunt joined up with the rest of the UMBRELLA team at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. No rest for the weary however, because the next day …
Part of the recent fieldwork involved studying the sediments mapped as mid Miocene in the Jinggu Basin (23.5°N, 100.7°E). The geological evolution of Yunnan and the southeastern margin of Tibet is complex but appears to include Cenozoic extrusion of the Indo-China block as a result of the India-Asia collision. As much as 350 km of …