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Abstract The Tibetan Plateau has an important role in controlling the Asian monsoon, river drainage and biodiversity patterns across Asia. The history of plateau development and its mechanistic links to underthrusting of the Indian plate beneath the Asian plate remain controversial. Here, using mid- to low-temperature thermochronological data and exhumation history modelling, we show differences in the exhumation history of Central and Western Tibet during the middle Cenozoic.
The timing and mechanisms involved in creating the elevated, low-relief topography of the South African plateau remains unresolved. Here we constrain the thermal history of the southwest African plateau since 300?Ma using apatite fission track (AFT) and (U-Th-Sm)/He (AHe) thermochronology. Archaean rocks from the centre of the Kaapvaal Craton yield AFT ages of 331.0?±?11.0 and 379.0?±?23.0?Ma and mean track lengths (MTL) of 11.9?±?0.2 and 12.5?±?0.3?µm.
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