Stanford researchers capture Central Asia's 'de-greening' over millions of years into a modern-day desert

ENN
Oct 13, 2016, 12:43 pm103 pts
A new study chronicles how central Asia dried out over the last 23 million years into one of the most arid regions on the planet. The findings illustrate the dramatic climatic shifts wrought by the ponderous rise of new mountain ranges over geologic time.Researchers have long cited the uplift of the Tibetan…

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