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SCIENCE
卷 311, 期 5760, 页码 511-515出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1119365
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The elevation of Earth's surface is among the most difficuit environmental variables to reconstruct from the geological record. Here we describe an approach to paleoaltimetry based on independent and simultaneous determinations of soil temperatures and the oxygen isotope compositions of soil waters, constrained by measurements of abundances of C-13-O-18 bonds in soil carbonates. We use this approach to show that the Altiplano plateau in the Bolivian Andes rose at an average rate of 1.03 +/- 0.12 millimeters per year between similar to 10.3 and similar to 6.7 million years ago. This rate is consistent with the removal of dense lower crust and/or lithospheric mantle as the cause of elevation gain.
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