A mystery of form and structure: Untangling the Landscape of China's Tarim Basin
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 - 14:41
in Earth & Climate
Earth scientists have untangled the curious landscape of China's Tarim Basin using a model simulation of ancient events. Despite lying in arid desert and being the site of rapidly growing, elongated folds of stratified rock called anticlines, the Tarim Basin region features huge flat surfaces that have been beveled across the tops of those folds. The folds are caused by the ongoing convergence between India and Asia.