Published September 22, 2021 | Version v1
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Palaeo-environmental evolution of Central Asia during the Cenozoic

Creators

  • 1. Institute of Applied Geosciences, Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz Geocenter, Graz, Austria
  • 2. Department of Life Sciences, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan and Department of Geoscience, French-Azerbaijani University (UFAZ), Baku, Azerbaijan
  • 3. Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 4. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  • 5. Geoscience Centre (GZG), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
  • 6. Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Graz, NAWI Graz Geocenter, Graz, Austria
  • 7. Division of Geology, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia
  • 8. Department of Geology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

Description

In this contribution (published in Climate of the Past, CP), we identified the provenance, (post)depositional history, weathering conditions and hydroclimate that formed the silicate and soil carbonate minerals of the Valley of Lakes sediments in Central Asia during the Cenozoic (~34 to 21 Ma). Aridification pulses in continental Central Asia coincide with marine glaciation events and are caused by Cenozoic climate forcing and the exhumation of the Tian Shan and Altai mountains, which reduced the moisture influx by westerly winds.

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A. Baldermann et al._CP_Palaeo-environmental evolution of Central Asia during the Cenozoic.pdf

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10.5194/cp-17-1-2021 (DOI)