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The ‘Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ Myth

by Alex Farnsworth on Monday May 18th, 2020

The phrase ‘the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ permeates the scientific literature, extending even into the realms of molecular phylogeny. It implies that this enormous and almost flat-surfaced portion of Earth’s surface rose as a coherent entity, and that uplift was driven entirely by the collision and northward movement of India. In a study published …

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