Mountain Geoecology and Sustainable Development of the Tibetan Plateau - Google Books

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Intense uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in Late Cenozoic Era is one of the most important events in geological history of the Earth. The plateau offers an ideal region for studying of lithospheric formation and evolution, probing into the mechanism of…