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Scientists know the most about the most recent climate changes and events. The more time that passes, the less we know about Earth history. We know more about climate changes in the Holocene than we do in the Pliocene; more about the Pleistocene than the Paleocene. We know more about the Wisconsin glaciation than we know about the Kansan, and more about the Kansan that the Nebraskan. The Tibetan Plateau began to be uplifted with the collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian plate about 58 million years ago and began to affect the climate of Southeast Asia. The high standing plateau and the Himalayan Mountains caused the severe monsoons that affect the area today.
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Farmer, G.T., Cook, J. (2013). Climates of the Recent Past. In: Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5757-8_20
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