Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.

The India-Asia continental collision and the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau have long been attributed to continuous Cenozoic convergence with two generic assumptions: the ongoing India-Asia collision ...

Three such collision zones form the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau, the European Alps and ... of delaminating dense mountain roots is rapid uplift of the mountain range above. Imagine a piece of ...

The findings provide new insights into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau's uplift process, revealing that the eastern part of the Central Tibetan Valley rose before the central part. This created a ...

New results of (U-Th)/He dating and thermal history simulation of apatite and zircon are used to reveal klippe uplift and exhumation ... eastern margin of Tibetan Plateau. Science China Earth ...

Scientists have warned that there is a rising risk of extreme weather events as a result of the Tibetan Plateau becoming warmer and wetter. The plateau is sometimes described as the “Asian water ...

BEIJING, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have revealed that the Tibetan Plateau is expected to experience accelerated warming in the next 10 years, according to the Institute of ...

Beijing: Chinese researchers have revealed that the Tibetan Plateau is expected to experience accelerated warming in the next 10 years, according to the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) under ...