Older than Time: Tracing the Formation of the Tibetan Plateau Using Triple Oxygen Isotopes (VIDEO)

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A new study in Nature Geoscience finds that the southern Tibetan Plateau was already more than halfway to their towering heights before the India–Eurasia continental collision.

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China University of Geosciences, CUGB

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