The early Eocene rise of the Gonjo Basin, SE Tibet: From low desert to high forest

Understanding the orographic development of the Tibetan Plateau through time is essential to the UMBRELLA project and measuring past landscape height is core to that understanding. It is the shape and height of the land surface that interacts with the atmosphere that in turn affects climate, vegetation type and drainage patterns, all of which feedback …

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Fossilised palm leaves give new insights into the geographical landscape of prehistoric central Tibet

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 …

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Climate modelling work update

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: 模拟数据 The scope of the modelling work aims is …

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