Ping Wang

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present 40Ar/39Ar ages from basalts interbedded with fluvial sediments from the lower reaches of the Yangtze together with detrital zircon U-Pb ages from sand grains within these sediments.

TL;DR: This paper resolves a long-standing debate concerning the age of the Taklimakan Desert, and shows that the desert came into existence during late Oligocene–early Miocene, between ∼26.7 Ma and 22.6 Ma, as a result of widespread regional aridification and increased erosion in the surrounding mountain fronts.

TL;DR: The Xunhua, Guide and Tongren intermontane basin system in the NE Tibetan Plateau, situated near the Xining basin to the N and the Linxia basin to E, is bounded by thrust fault-controlled ranges as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the present Yangtze River system formed in response to regional extension throughout eastern China, synchronous with the start of strike–slip tectonism and surface uplift in eastern Tibet and fed by strengthened rains caused by the newly intensified summer monsoon.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of a magnetostratigraphic grain size and geochemical investigation of a well-preserved sequence of eolian sediments of Miocene age at Duanjiapo, on the southern Chinese Loess Plateau, were presented.