A 40-million-year-old layer of dust can help predict how monsoons will change

Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 11:20 in Astronomy & Space

A fine layer of dust thought to have been left by the first winter monsoon ever to cross northeastern Tibet has been uncovered by scientists, revealing the moment when the great weather phenomenon that waters much of Asia’s summers and dries its winters may have begun. The dust blew in some 40 million years ago, […]

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