Comment on "revised paleoaltimetry data show low Tibetan Plateau elevation during the Eocene"

Valdes, P.J. and Lin, D. and Farnsworth, A. and Spicer, R.A. and Li, S.-H. and Tao, S. (2019) Comment on "revised paleoaltimetry data show low Tibetan Plateau elevation during the Eocene". Science, 365 (6459): 8474. ISSN 0036-8075

Abstract

Botsyun et al. (Research Articles, 1 March 2019, eaaq1436) have suggested that the Tibetan Plateau was low (substantially less than 3000 meters) during the Eocene, based on a comparison of oxygen isotope proxy data with isotope-enabled climate model simulations. However, we contend that their conclusions are flawed as the result of a number of failings of both the modeling and the data comparison.