Available data point to a 4-km-high Tibetan Plateau by 40 Ma, but 100 molecular-clock papers have linked supposed recent uplift to young node ages

Climate changes control offshore crustal structure at South China Sea continental margin

(2015) Peter D. Clift et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Paleomagnetic tests of tectonic reconstructions of the India-Asia collision zone

(2015) Wentao Huang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Cenozoic vertebrate evolution and paleoenvironment in Tibetan Plateau: Progress and prospects

(2015) Xiaoming Wang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Evolution of endemism on a young tropical mountain

(2015) Vincent S. F. T. Merckx et al.   NATURE

Erosion in southern Tibet shut down at ∼10 Ma due to enhanced rock uplift within the Himalaya

(2015) Marissa M. Tremblay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

(2015) Christine D. Bacon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early Miocene elevation in northern Tibet estimated by palaeobotanical evidence

(2015) Bin Sun et al.   Scientific Reports

The role of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan biotas

(2014) Adrien Favre et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

New Oligocene cyprinid in the central Tibetan Plateau documents the pre-uplift tropical lowlands

(2014) Ning Wang et al.   ICHTHYOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Quantifying theP-T-tconditions of north-south Lhasa terrane accretion: new insight into the pre-Himalayan architecture of the Tibetan plateau

(2014) O. M. Weller et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

A phylogeographic evaluation of the Amolops mantzorum species group: Cryptic species and plateau uplift

(2014) Bin Lu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Cool equatorial terrestrial temperatures and the South Asian monsoon in the Early Eocene: Evidence from the Gurha Mine, Rajasthan, India

(2014) Anumeha Shukla et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Evolutionary diversifications of plants on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Jun Wen et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Linking Tarim Basin sea retreat (west China) and Asian aridification in the late Eocene

(2013) R. Bosboom et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Influence of the Tibetan Plateau uplift on the Asian monsoon-arid environment evolution

(2013) XiaoDong Liu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Ground tit genome reveals avian adaptation to living at high altitudes in the Tibetan plateau

(2013) Yanhua Qu et al.   Nature Communications

Vegetation and climatic changes of SW China in response to the uplift of Tibetan Plateau

(2012) Qian-Qian Zhang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Megaflora and palaeoclimate of a Late Oligocene tropical delta, Makum Coalfield, Assam: Evidence for the early development of the South Asia Monsoon

(2012) Gaurav Srivastava et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Locomotive implication of a Pliocene three-toed horse skeleton from Tibet and its paleo-altimetry significance

(2012) T. Deng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The paleoaltimetry of Tibet: An isotopic perspective

(2011) J. Quade et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

New age determination of the Cenozoic Lunpola basin, central Tibet

(2011) HUAIYU HE et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

A phylogeny of Delphinieae (Ranunculaceae) shows that Aconitum is nested within Delphinium and that Late Miocene transitions to long life cycles in the Himalayas and Southwest China coincide with bursts in diversification

(2011) Florian Jabbour et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Out of Tibet: Pliocene Woolly Rhino Suggests High-Plateau Origin of Ice Age Megaherbivores

(2011) T. Deng et al.   SCIENCE

Orographic Controls on Climate and Paleoclimate of Asia: Thermal and Mechanical Roles for the Tibetan Plateau

(2010) Peter Molnar et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Origin and development of Artemisia (Asteraceae) in Asia and its implications for the uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau: A review

(2010) Miao Yunfa et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

(2010) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE

The late Miocene through present paleoelevation history of southwestern Tibet

(2009) J. E. Saylor et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Molecular phylogeny ofSolms-laubachia(Brassicaceae) s.l., based on multiple nuclear and plastid DNA sequences, and its biogeographic implications

(2009) Ji-Pei YUE et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Constraints on the early uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau

(2008) Chengshan Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Geological Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau

(2008) L. H. Royden et al.   SCIENCE