Peter D. Clift

Research interests

Publications

• Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO 2

  Science Advances · 2019 · 10.1126/sciadv.aax1697

• High-resolution magnetostratigraphic study of the Paleogene-Neogene strata in the Northern Qaidam Basin: Implications for the growth of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

  Gondwana Research · 2017 · 10.1016/j.gr.2017.02.015

• Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon and its potential linkage with uplift of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau

  Progress in Earth and Planetary Science · 2016 · 10.1186/s40645-016-0080-y

• Late Oligocene–early Miocene birth of the Taklimakan Desert

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · 10.1073/pnas.1424487112

• Seismic stratigraphy of the central South China Sea basin and implications for neotectonics

  Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth · 2015 · 10.1002/2014jb011686

• Zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic constraints on the onset time of India-Asia collision

  American Journal of Science · 2014 · 10.2475/02.2014.04

• Ages and magnetic structures of the South China Sea constrained by deep tow magnetic surveys and IODP Expedition 349

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gc005567

• Reconstructing chemical weathering, physical erosion and monsoon intensity since 25 Ma in the northern South China Sea: A review of competing proxies

  Earth-Science Reviews · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.01.002

• Pre-Miocene birth of the Yangtze River

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 10.1073/pnas.1216241110

• Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilization

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 10.1073/pnas.1112743109

• Crustal redistribution, crust–mantle recycling and Phanerozoic evolution of the continental crust

  Earth-Science Reviews · 2009 · 10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.003

• Evolving east Asian river systems reconstructed by trace element and Pb and Nd isotope variations in modern and ancient Red River‐Song Hong sediments

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2008 · 10.1029/2007gc001867

• Correlation of Himalayan exhumation rates and Asian monsoon intensity

  Nature Geoscience · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo351

• Development of the East Asian monsoon: Mineralogical and sedimentologic records in the northern South China Sea since 20 Ma

  Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.07.009

• Large‐scale drainage capture and surface uplift in eastern Tibet–SW China before 24 Ma inferred from sediments of the Hanoi Basin, Vietnam

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2006gl027772

• Controls on the erosion of Cenozoic Asia and the flux of clastic sediment to the ocean

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2006 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.028

• A Detailed Geochemical Study of Island Arc Crust: the Talkeetna Arc Section, South–Central Alaska

  Journal of Petrology · 2006 · 10.1093/petrology/egl002

• The sedimentary and tectonic evolution of the Yinggehai–Song Hong basin and the southern Hainan margin, South China Sea: Implications for Tibetan uplift and monsoon intensification

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2006 · 10.1029/2005jb004048

• Controls on tectonic accretion versus erosion in subduction zones: Implications for the origin and recycling of the continental crust

  Reviews of Geophysics · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2003rg000127

• Continent‐ocean interactions within the East Asian Marginal seas

  Eos · 2003 · 10.1029/2003eo150005

• Erosional response of South China to arc rifting and monsoonal strengthening; a record from the South China Sea

  Marine Geology · 2002 · 10.1016/s0025-3227(01)00301-2

• Evidence of low flexural rigidity and low viscosity lower continental crust during continental break-up in the South China Sea

  Marine and Petroleum Geology · 2002 · 10.1016/s0264-8172(02)00108-3

• Development of the Indus Fan and its significance for the erosional history of the Western Himalaya and Karakoram

  Geological Society of America Bulletin · 2001 · 10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<1039:dotifa>2.0.co;2

• Seven Million Years of Glaciation in Greenland

  Science · 1994 · 10.1126/science.264.5161.952

• Palaeogeographic and palaeotectonic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean Neotethys

  Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · 1991 · 10.1016/0031-0182(91)90140-m

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