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In his latest paper, Yuntao (in collaboration with colleagues in Australia and China) has used the apatite fission track method to reveal a Miocene phase of rapid cooling in the eastern Tibetan crust. This cooling event is attributed to synchronous river incision, consistent with regional surface uplift generated by crustal extrusion along a detachment at depth.
Tian, Yuntao, et al. "Synchronous fluvial response to surface uplift in the eastern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for crustal dynamics." Geophysical Research Letters (2015).