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Palaeoclimatic estimates for a latest Miocene-Pliocene flora from the Siwalik Group of Bhutan: Evidence for the development of the South Asian Monsoon in the eastern Himalaya

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作者Khan, Mahasin Ali1; Bera, Meghma1; Spicer, Robert A.; Spicer, Teresa E. V.; Bera, Subir1
刊名PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
出版日期2019
卷号514期号:x页码:326-335
关键词Sediments Middle Miocene Tibetan Plateau Arunachal-pradesh Lower Pleistocene Foot Hills Climate Uplift India Diversity Collision
ISSN号0031-0182
DOI10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.10.019
英文摘要

Fossil leaf floras, from the latest Miocene-Pliocene Siwalik Group exposed in Bhutan, sub-Himalaya, are subjected to a CLAMP (Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Program) analysis using a high-resolution gridded climate calibration. The CLAMP analysis of 27 different morphotypes of fossil leaves indicates a mean annual temperature (MAT) of 24.1 degrees C +/- 2.8 degrees C; a cold month mean temperature (CMMT) of 18.9 degrees C +/- 4 degrees C and a warm month mean temperature (WMMT) of 27.8 degrees C +/- 3.3 degrees C. The analysis also suggests a weak monsoonal climate (the monsoon index, MSI 46.7; present MSI 52) with growing season precipitation (GSP) of 1819 +/- 916 mm (present GSP 2490 mm). Here we also compare palaeoclimate estimates of the latest Miocene-Pliocene Siwalik Group flora from Bhutan (c. 6 to 3.8 Ma) with those of previously investigated Siwalik Group floras from the Miocene-Pleistocene of Arunachal, India and Miocene Siwalik floras of Darjeeling, India which characterise the monsoon signature at the time of deposition. Since all the Siwalik floras of the eastern Himalaya (Darjeeling and Arunachal Pradesh) spanning the mid-Miocene to Pleistocene yield almost the same values we suggest that overall the eastern Himalayan Siwalik climate appears to have been remarkably uniform over the past 15 million years. The MAT result of the Bhutan Siwalik flora differs by just 0.6 degrees C from Arunachal and 1.2 degrees C from Darjeeling Siwalik floras. For all Siwalik fossil assemblages, WMMTs, CMMTs and LGSs (length of the growing season) are similar and consistent (WMMTs around 28 degrees C, CMMTs around 18 degrees C and LGSs around 12 months). Similarly, the mean annual relative humidity (RH) and specific humidity (SH) appear to have been uniformly around 80% and 14 g/kg respectively throughout the Neogene of the eastern Himalayan Siwaliks. Changes in the monsoon index suggest that in both Bhutan and Arunachal sub-Himalaya, there has been little change in the intensity of the monsoon since mid-Miocene time, while further west in the Darjeeling area precipitation seasonality has increased since the mid-Miocene.

学科主题Physical Geography ; Geology ; Paleontology
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000456355800024
源URL[http://ir.xtbg.org.cn/handle/353005/11218]  
专题西双版纳热带植物园_古生态研究组
作者单位1.Sidho Kanho Birsha Univ, Dept Bot, Ranchi Rd, Purulia 723104, India
2.Univ Calcutta, Dept Bot, Ctr Adv Study, 35 BC Rd, Kolkata 700019, India
3.Spicer, Robert A.] Open Univ, Sch Environm Earth & Ecosyst Sci, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, Bucks, England
4.Spicer, Robert A.] Chinese Acad Sci, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Menglun 666303, Yunnan, Peoples R China
5.Spicer, Teresa E. V.] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, 20 Nanxincun, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China
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Khan, Mahasin Ali,Bera, Meghma,Spicer, Robert A.,et al. Palaeoclimatic estimates for a latest Miocene-Pliocene flora from the Siwalik Group of Bhutan: Evidence for the development of the South Asian Monsoon in the eastern Himalaya[J]. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,2019,514(x):326-335.
APA Khan, Mahasin Ali,Bera, Meghma,Spicer, Robert A.,Spicer, Teresa E. V.,&Bera, Subir.(2019).Palaeoclimatic estimates for a latest Miocene-Pliocene flora from the Siwalik Group of Bhutan: Evidence for the development of the South Asian Monsoon in the eastern Himalaya.PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,514(x),326-335.
MLA Khan, Mahasin Ali,et al."Palaeoclimatic estimates for a latest Miocene-Pliocene flora from the Siwalik Group of Bhutan: Evidence for the development of the South Asian Monsoon in the eastern Himalaya".PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 514.x(2019):326-335.

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