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In the Kunlun Mountains Pass area, all the landform, structure, sedimentary facies and assembladge of organisms show that a violent tectonic movement occurred between 1.1-0.7 MaB. P. The movement leads to a largescale uplifting first, and then fault-block risine and fault depression occurred suddenly in the northern Plateau. In the late period of this movement, sudden and tremendous uplifting raised this area over the critical elevation of 3 000 m and caused the appearance of the maximum glaciation in Quaternary. This uplifting is perhaps the driving force of the tremendous environmental change of tectonic-climatic circulation at the break of the early and middle Pleistocene in China.
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Project supported by the Climbing Program A-85 “Study of Evolutionary Process, Environmental Change and Ecological System of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau”. Now the new name “Kunlun-Yellow River Tectonic Movement” is proposed to substitute the old one by Academician Li Jijun, because Kunlun Movement and Yellow River Movemen[9] occurred at about the same time.
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Cui, Z., Wu, Y., Liu, G. et al. On Kunlun-Yellow River tectonic movement. Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci. 41, 592–600 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02878741
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02878741