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A new approach to stable isotope-based paleoaltimetry: implications for paleoaltimetry and paleohypsometry of the High Himalaya since the Late Miocene

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In this article, the change in oxygen isotopic composition of precipitation is modeled using equilibrium fractionation during Rayleigh distillation linked to the thermodynamics of atmospheric ascent and water vapor condensation.
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This article is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.The article was published on 2001-05-30. It has received 401 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hypsometry & Late Miocene.

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Palaeo-altimetry of the late Eocene to Miocene Lunpola basin, central Tibet

TL;DR: Estimates of the palaeo-altimetry of late Eocene and younger deposits of the Lunpola basin in the centre of the plateau indicate that the surface of Tibet has been at an elevation of more than 4 kilometres for at least the past 35 million years.
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Constraints on the early uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau

TL;DR: Geologic and geophysical data from north-central Tibet are presented, including magnetostratigraphy, sedimentology, paleocurrent measurements, and 40Ar/39Ar and fission-track studies, to show that the central plateau was elevated by 40 Ma ago.
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Orographic controls on climate and paleoclimate of Asia: thermal and mechanical roles for the Tibetan Plateau.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the high Tibetan plateau may affect the South Asian monsoon less by heating the overlying atmosphere than by simply acting as an obstacle to southward flow of cool, dry air.
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Climatic and environmental controls on speleothem oxygen-isotope values

TL;DR: In this paper, a process-based summary of the multiple controls on speleothem oxygen-isotope values (d 18 O) in the atmosphere, soil, epikarst, and calcite, illustrated with case studies is presented.
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A review of climatic controls on δ18O in precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and simulations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors established a database of precipitation δ18O and used different models to evaluate the climatic controls of precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), revealing three distinct domains associated with the influence of the westerlies (northern TP), Indian monsoon (southern TP), and transition in between.
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The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

TL;DR: The NCEP/NCAR 40-yr reanalysis uses a frozen state-of-the-art global data assimilation system and a database as complete as possible, except that the horizontal resolution is T62 (about 210 km) as discussed by the authors.
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Stable isotopes in precipitation

TL;DR: In this paper, the isotopic fractionation of water in simple condensation-evaporation processes is considered quantitatively on the basis of the fractionation factors given in section 1.2.
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Isotopic Variations in Meteoric Waters

TL;DR: The relationship between deuterium and oxygen-18 concentrations in natural meteoric waters from many parts of the world has been determined with a mass spectrometer and shows a linear correlation over the entire range for waters which have not undergone excessive evaporation.
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A revised Cenozoic geochronology and chronostratigraphy

TL;DR: Cande and Kent as mentioned in this paper presented a revised (integrated magnetobiochronologic) Cenozoic time scale (IMBTS) based on an assessment and integration of data from several sources.
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