Snail Shells Show High-Rise Plateau Is Much Lower

UAW Today (University of Washington) ^ | 9/22/2014 | Vince Stricherz

[JimSEA]

The Tibetan Plateau in south-central Asia, because of its size, elevation and impact on climate, is one of the world’s greatest geological oddities.

The Zhada Basin on the southwest Tibetan Plateau, with the Himalayas to the south.Joel Saylor

At about 960,000 square miles it covers slightly more land area than Alaska, Texas and California combined, and its elevation is on the same scale as Mount Rainier in the Cascade Range of Washington state. Because it rises so high into the atmosphere, it helps bring monsoons over India and other nations to the south while the plateau itself remains generally arid.

[JimSEA]

But new research led by a University of Washington scientist appears to confirm an earlier improbable finding – at least one large area in southwest Tibet, the plateau’s Zhada Basin, actually lost 3,000 to 5,000 feet of elevation sometime in the Pliocene epoch.

“This basin is really high right now but we think it was a kilometer or more higher just 3 million to 4 million years ago,” said Katharine Huntington, a UW associate professor of Earth and space sciences and the lead author of a paper describing the research.

[minnesota_bound]

If there are shells way up high then that means that the sea level is dropping!!! There is also a drought causing the land to subsist!

We must prevent this by raising taxes and living in tiny homes and driving electric cars when not on a bus or train while our “betters” fly about the world to warn us of the impending doom (usually at least 10 years out).