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Uplift and formation of Tibetan Plateau was an important event in Asia in late Cenozoic Era, which has not only changed natural environment of the plateau itself, but also exerted a tremendous effect upon its surrounding areas. Uplift of the plateau created Asian monsoons (Manabe and Terpstra, 1974), which enriched Monsoon Asia with high unit yields of biomass, where occupying one tenth of land on earth, sustaining more than half population of the world. However, extremely high altitudes, steep mountain slopes, frequent tectonic movements and changeable climate also promote varieties of disasters, such as earthquakes, landslides, debris and mud flows, floods and frosts etc.
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Qingsong, Z. (2000). Uplift and Environmental Changes of the Tibetan Plateau. In: Zheng, D., Zhang, Q., Wu, S. (eds) Mountain Geoecology and Sustainable Development of the Tibetan Plateau. GeoJournal Library, vol 57. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0965-2_2
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