Fig. 1
From: Global cooling and enhanced Eocene Asian mid-latitude interior aridity
Topographic map of the study location and surrounding region. a Present day topography of the Tibetan Plateau and location of the study site. The sub-figure is focused on the Altun Shan and surrounding area. Also shown in a are the estimated extent of the Paratethys Sea60 and the estimated extent of the Tibetan Plateau in the Eocene13. b Topographic profiles across the Tibetan Plateau for the present day and early Eocene periods. The star indicates the location of the studied stratigraphic sequence. The early Eocene reconstruction is from ref. 13. The digital elevation data are from http://www.gscloud.cn/
