Comment on “Revised paleoaltimetry data show low Tibetan Plateau elevation during the Eocene”

Paul J. Valdes; Ding Lin; Alex Farnsworth; Robert A. Spicer; Shi Hu Li; Su Tao

doi:10.1126/science.aax8474

Comment on “Revised paleoaltimetry data show low Tibetan Plateau elevation during the Eocene”

Paul J. Valdes^*, Ding Lin, Alex Farnsworth, Robert A. Spicer, Shi Hu Li, Su Tao

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Botsyun et al. (Research Articles, 1 March 2019, eaaq1436) have suggested that the Tibetan Plateau was low (substantially less than 3000 meters) during the Eocene, based on a comparison of oxygen isotope proxy data with isotope-enabled climate model simulations. However, we contend that their conclusions are flawed as the result of a number of failings of both the modeling and the data comparison.

Original language	English
Article number	eaax8474
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	365
Issue number	6459
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax8474
Publication status	Published - 20 Sept 2019

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