Sedimentological response to uplift of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A contribution from aeolian sandstones of the Cenozoic in Jiuquan area of Gansu Province
Mei Mingxiang1 Su Dechen2
1 School of Earth Sciences and Natural Resources，China University of Geosciences（Beijing），Beijing 100083 2 State Key Laboratory of Continental Structure and Dynamics，Institute of Geology，Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences，Beijing 100037
Abstract Since it led to the obvious change of both the surface environment of the Earth and the pattern of the atmosphere circulation，the rapid persisting uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the Cenozoic is an important and conspicuous event of the global change.Lots of important concepts and ideas were resulted from studies on this important event，and many controversies were also caused from these studies.Aeolian sandstones and their relative deposits of the Cenozoic in Jiuquan area represent particular deposits formed by the environmental change that was controlled by the persisting uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the Cenozoic.These aeolian sandstones are:（1)aeolian sandstones in the bottom part of the Paleogene Baiyanghe Formation，which delegated the product formed in arid and torrid environment controlled by Indian Summer Monsoon;（2)aeolian sandstones in the lower part of the Neogene Shulehe Formation，which represented the deposit generated in the humid environment that was also controlled by Indian Summer Monsoon;（3)lens of aeolian sandstones within the Quaternary Yumen Formation，which were resulted from the cold environment caused by the Winter Monsoon(or the Westerlies).Therefore，aeolian sandstones of the Cenozoic in the study areas became the importantly sedimentological response to peek the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the Cenozoic，and provided an important thinking clue for further research on the uplift process of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the Cenozoic.
About author: Mei Mingxiang，born in 1965，graduated from China University of Geosciences(Beijing)in 1993，and obtained his Ph.D.degree.Now he is a professor at School of Earth Sciences and Natural Resource，China University of Geosciences(Beijing)，and is engaged in sedimentology and stratigraphy.E-mail: meimingxiang@263.net.
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Mei Mingxiang,Su Dechen. Sedimentological response to uplift of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A contribution from aeolian sandstones of the Cenozoic in Jiuquan area of Gansu Province[J]. JOURNAL OF PALAEOGEOGRAPHY, 2013, 15(3): 351-362.
Mei Mingxiang,Su Dechen. Sedimentological response to uplift of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A contribution from aeolian sandstones of the Cenozoic in Jiuquan area of Gansu Province[J]. JOPC, 2013, 15(3): 351-362.
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