Prof. Dr. Peter D. Clift 

Earth
Louisiana State University
May 2023 - August 2023 Fellow
July 2022 - October 2022 Fellow
September 2011 - December 2011 Fellow
September 2010 - December 2010 Fellow
September 2009 - December 2009 Fellow

Projects at HWK

  • July 2022 - August 2023: Temporal Evolution of the Asian-Australian Monsoon and its Impact on Global Climate
  • September 2009 - January 2012: Reconstructing the Intensity and Impacts of the Asian Monsoon on the Environment and Mankind Since the Last Glacial Maximum
Peter D. Clift

Publications (14)

2013
A Pre-Miocene Birth to the Yangtze River
Publication: PNAS
Volume & Pages:110 (19), 7556–7561
2012
U-Pb zircon Dating Evidence for a Pleistocene Sarasvati River and Capture of the Yamuna River
Publication: Geology
Volume & Pages:40 (3), 211–214
2010
Testing Competing Proxies for Asian Monsoon Intensity Since 14 KA in the South China Sea
Publication: AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
Volume & Pages:GC51G-0817
2012
Tectonic and climatic controls on long-term silicate weathering in Asia since 5 Ma
Publication: Geophyscal Research Letters
Volume & Pages:39 (15),
2021
Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers, and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia
ISBN:978-1-107-03008-4
Publisher & Location:Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
2012
Late Mesozoic - Cenozoic Exhumation History of Northern Svalbard and ist Regional Significance: Constraints From Apatite Fission Track Analysis
Publication: Tectonophysics
Volume & Pages:514-517, 81-92
2012
Geochemical record of Holocene to Recent sedimentation on the Western Indus continental shelf, Arabian Sea
Publication: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Volume & Pages:13 (1), Q01008
2017
Enhanced silicate weathering of tropical shelf sediments exposed during glacial lowstands: A sink for atmospheric CO2
Publication: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Volume & Pages:200, 123-144
2010
Enhanced Global Continental Erosion and Exhumation Driven by Oligo-Miocene Climate Change
Publication: Geophysical Research Letters
Volume & Pages:37 (9), L09402
2012
Deep sea records of the continental weathering and erosion response to East Asian monsoon intensification since 14 ka in the South China Sea
Publication: Chemical Geology
Volume & Pages:326-327, 1-18
2012
Clay Mineral Variations in Holocene Terrestrial Sediments From the Indus Basin; a Response to SW Asian Monsoon Variability
Publication: Quaternary Research
Volume & Pages:77 (3), 368-381
2012
Chemical weathering and provenance evolution of Holocene–Recent sediments from the Western Indus Shelf, Northern Arabian Sea inferred from physical and mineralogical properties
Publication: Marine Geology
Volume & Pages:326-328, 101-115
2010
Ar-Ar Muscovite Dating as a Constraint on Sediment Provenance and Erosion Processes in the Red and Yangtze River Systems, SE Asia
Publication: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Volume & Pages:295 (3-4), 379 - 389
2013
Why is Svalbard an island? Evidence for two-stage uplift, magmatic underplating, and mantle thermal anomalies
Publication: Tectonics
Volume & Pages:32 (3), 473-486