The high-rise Tibetan Plateau is much lower than it used to be, a new study of snail shells has revealed. Scientists have revealed that at least one large area in southwest Tibet, the plateau's Zhada Basin, actually lost 3,000 to 5,000 feet of elevation sometime in the Pliocene epoch. Researcher Katharine Huntington, a UW associate professor of Earth and space sciences, said that the basin is really high right now but they think it was a kilometer or ...Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Rise and Fall of Tibetan Plateau Revealed by Snail Shells
The high-rise Tibetan Plateau is much lower than it used to be, a new study of snail shells has revealed. Scientists have revealed that at least one large area in southwest Tibet, the plateau's Zhada Basin, actually lost 3,000 to 5,000 feet of elevation sometime in the Pliocene epoch. Researcher Katharine Huntington, a UW associate professor of Earth and space sciences, said that the basin is really high right now but they think it was a kilometer or ...
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