The Tibetan Plateau is recognized for its seismic activity, which results from tectonic plate collisions. Nepal and Tibet regions lie on a major geological fault line where the Indian tectonic plate ...

and its presence in remote areas like the Tibetan Plateau shows the vast reach of human impact on the environment," explained Marcantonio, a professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics ...

was run under the present climate to model the potential biomes on the Tibetan Plateau on a 10′ grid. The simulated biome was basically in good agreement with a potential natural vegetation map based ...

Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have compared several methods ...

The key driver of SPR shifts lies in paleogeography—specifically, the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and the westward ... played a secondary role in the geological evolution of SPR, it is ...

Strength of tectonic plates may explain shape of the Tibetan Plateau, study finds University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau Journal Nature Communications Funder National Natural ...