Continental drift and plateau uplift control origination and evolution of Asian and Australian monsoons.

ABSTRACT: Evolutions of Asian and Australian monsoons have important significance for understanding the past global change but are still a controversial subject. Here, we explore systematically the effects of plate movement and plateau uplift on the formation and evolution of the Asian and Australian monsoons by numerical simulations based on land-sea distributions and topographic conditions for five typical geological periods during the Cenozoic. Our results suggest that the timings and causes of formation of the monsoons in South Asia, East Asia and northern Australia are different. The Indian Subcontinent, which was located in the tropical Southern Hemisphere in the Paleocene, was influenced by the austral monsoon system simulated at that time. Once it moved to the tropical Northern Hemisphere in

SUBMITTER: Liu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5233948 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature