Selected Publications
2025
Du, Y., Clift, P.D., Carter, A., 2025. Chemical Weathering and Erosional Response of Northern New Guinea to Orbital-Scale Climate Variability. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26(2): e2024GC011883. doi:10.1029/2024GC011883.
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Clift, P.D., 2025. Variations in Aridity across the Asia-Australia Region during the Neogene and their Impact on Vegetation. In: Dupont-Nivet, G., Jonell, T.N., Dommain, R., Clift, P.D. (Eds.), Asian Geodynamics, Climate and Biodiversity. Special Publications, 549, Geological Society, London, pp. SP549-2023-58, doi:10.1144/SP549-2023-58.
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Wang, X., Wan, S., Clift, P.D., Zhao, D., Cai, G., Yang, Y., Zhang, J., Yu, Z., Jin, H., Song, Z., Tang, Y., Zhang, S., Li, A., 2025. Human Activities Induced Stronger Silicate Weathering in the Red River Basin: A Growing Carbon Sink During the Late Holocene. J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 130(10): e2025JF008433. doi:10.1029/2025JF008433
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2024
Clift, P.D., Du, Y., Mohtadi, M., Pahnke, K., Sutorius, M., Böning, P., 2024. The erosional and weathering response to arc–continent collision in New Guinea. Journal of the Geological Society, 181(4). 10.1144/jgs2023-207.
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Clift, P.D., Jonell, T.N., Du, Y., Bornholdt, T., 2024. The impact of Himalayan-Tibetan erosion on silicate weathering and organic carbon burial. Chem. Geol., 656: 122106. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122106
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Clift, P.D., Curtis, J.G., 2024. A revised chemical weathering and sediment provenance history for the Late Miocene to recent Laxmi Basin, Arabian Sea. Geological Magazine, 161: e20. doi:10.1017/S0016756824000499.
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2023
Clift, P.D., Wilson, L.J., Syn- and post-rift lower crustal flow under the Sunda Shelf, southern Vietnam: A role for climatically modulated erosion. Basin Research. doi10.1111/bre.12809.
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Li, J., Dong, S., Cawood, P.A., Thybo, H., Clift, P.D., Johnston, S.T., Zhao, G., Zhang, Y., 2023. Cretaceous long-distance lithospheric extension and surface response in South China. Earth-Science Reviews, 243: 104496. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104496.
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Herrmann, A. D., J. T. Haynes, R. Robinet, P. D. Clift, and K. E. Goggin, 2023, Testing Tectonostratigraphic Hypotheses of the Blountian Phase of the Taconic Orogeny in the Southern Appalachians through an Integrated Geochronological and Sedimentological Study of Ordovician K-Bentonites and Quartz Arenites, Minerals, 13(6), 807, doi:10.3390/min13060807.
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Chen, F., Xue, G., Wang, Y., Zhang, H., Clift, P.D., Xing, Y., He, J., Albert, J.S., Chen, J., Xie, P., 2023. Evolution of the Yangtze River and its biodiversity. The Innovation, 4(3): 1-3. doi:10.1016/j.xinn.2023.100417.
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2022 ​
Li, Y., Clift, P.D., 2023. Controls on grain-size variability in the Holocene fill of the Indus Submarine Canyon. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 93(2): 71-87. doi:10.2110/jsr.2022.038.
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Neubeck, N., Carter, A., Rittenour, T., Clift, P.D., 2023. Climate and anthropogenic impacts on North American erosion and sediment transport since the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence from the detrital zircon record of the Lower Mississippi Valley, USA. GSA Bulletin. 10.1130/b36565.1. ​
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Clift, P.D., Mark, C., Alizai, A., Khan, H., Jan, M.Q., 2022. Detrital U–Pb rutile and zircon data show Indus River sediment dominantly eroded from East Karakoram, not Nanga Parbat. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 600: 117873. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117873.
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Jin, H., Wan, S., Clift, P.D., Liu, C., Huang, J., Jiang, S., Li, M., Qin, L., Shi, X., Li, A., 2022. Birth of the Pearl River at 30 Ma: Evidence from sedimentary records in the northern South China Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 600: 117872. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117872.
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Exnicios, E.M., Carter, A., Najman, Y., Clift, P.D., 2022. Late Miocene unroofing of the Inner Lesser Himalaya recorded in the NW Himalaya foreland basin. Basin Research, 34(6): 1894-1916. doi:10.1111/bre.12689.
Tang, Y., Wan, S., Clift, P.D., Zhao, D., Xu, Z., Zhang, J., Song, Z., Jin, H., Li, M., Shi, X., Li, A., 2022. Northward Shift of the Northern Hemisphere Westerlies in the Early to Late Miocene and Its Links to Tibetan Uplift. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(18): e2022GL099311. doi:10.1029/2022GL099311.
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Clift, P.D., Betzler, C., Clemens, S.C., Christensen, B., Eberli, G.P., France-Lanord, C., Gallagher, S., Holbourn, A., Kuhnt, W., Murray, R.W., Rosenthal, Y., Tada, R., Wan, S., 2022. A synthesis of monsoon exploration in the Asian marginal seas. Scientific Drilling, 10: 1-29. doi:10.5194/sd-10-1-2022. ​
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Jonell, T.N., Giosan, L., Clift, P.D., Carter, A., Bretschneider, L., Hathorne, E.C., Barbarano, M., Garzanti, E., Vezzoli, G., Naing, T., 2022. No modern Irrawaddy River until the late Miocene-Pliocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584: 117516. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117516.
Liu, C., Stockli, D.F., Clift, P.D., Wan, S., Stockli, L.D., Höfig, T.W., Schindlbeck-Belo, J.C., 2022. Geochronological and geochemical characterization of paleo-rivers deposits during rifting of the South China Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584: 117427. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117427.
Zheng, H., Yang, Q., Cao, S., Clift, P.D., He, M., Kano, A., Sakuma, A., Xu, H., Tada, R., Jourdan, F., 2022. From desert to monsoon: irreversible climatic transition at ~ 36 Ma in southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 9(1): 12. doi:10.1186/s40645-022-00470-x.
Zhou, P., Stockli, D.F., Ireland, T., Murray, R.W., Clift, P.D., 2022. Zircon U-Pb Age Constraints on NW Himalayan Exhumation From the Laxmi Basin, Arabian Sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(1): e2021GC010158. doi:10.1029/2021GC010158.
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