{"id":4207,"date":"2025-05-28T21:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4207"},"modified":"2025-10-04T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T15:25:20","slug":"talk-provisonal-title-recent-progress-in-the-palaeoichthyology-of-the-tibetan-plateau","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/event\/talk-provisonal-title-recent-progress-in-the-palaeoichthyology-of-the-tibetan-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk &#8211; From Tethys to the Himalaya \u2014 Fossil Fishes Witnessed the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau\u2019s Dramatic Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dorset Geologist<\/strong>\u2019<strong>s Association Group (DGAG) will host a talk on the Tuesday 21<sup>st<\/sup> October 2025.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Title:<\/strong> From Tethys to the Himalaya \u2014 Fossil Fishes Witnessed the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau\u2019s Dramatic Transformation<br \/>\n<strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Gengyu Fang; PhD Student in Palaeobiology<br \/>\nUniversity of Bristol; Natural History Museum, London<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> Talk will start at 7pm; finish approximately 8pm<br \/>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong> Activity Meeting Room: Dorford Centre, Bridport Road, Dorchester, DT1 1RR<br \/>\n<strong>Lecture Entry Cost:<\/strong> All welcome: \u00a36 non-members (\u00a35 for DGAG members), cash best.<br \/>\n<strong>Booking a seat:<\/strong> contact Chris Webb at email: events@dorsetgeologistsassociation.org<br \/>\n<strong>Speakers\u2019 summary &#8211; Talk Description:<\/strong> The Qinghai\u2013Tibetan Plateau (QTP) lies at the centre of Asia and averages over 4,500 m in elevation, making it Earth\u2019s highest plateau. Since the Mesozoic, spectacular tectonic events have built the plateau and driven profound environmental shifts, transforming the region from the ancient Tethys Ocean to today\u2019s alpine steppe. However, the timing and mechanisms of uplift, the pathways linking environmental change to ecological response, and the assembly of the region\u2019s distinctive biodiversity remain open questions.<br \/>\nThe QTP\u2019s dramatic tectonic history produced a series of sedimentary basins that preserve abundant fossils and record the co-evolution of biodiversity and uplift. Palaeontological research in the region began in the early twentieth century, most notably with the Sino-Swedish Expedition led by Birger Bohlin, who pioneered fieldwork in the Qaidam Basin on the QTP\u2019s northern margin. Over the past century, Chinese and international researchers have continued this legacy, conducting extensive fieldwork and gradually piecing together the QTP\u2019s uplift history.<br \/>\nThe presenter is a PhD student in palaeoichthyology whose project applies new methods to re-examine fish fossils from the QTP. Over the past nine years, he has been deeply involved in the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP), participating in more than ten field expeditions across the QTP and covering strata from the Lower Triassic to the Neogene. In this talk, he will introduce a relative of Helicoprion that once swam in the Neo-Tethys; tropical fish fossils discovered in the plateau\u2019s icy, windswept interior; Pliocene cyprinids adapted to extreme aridity; and records tracing the assembly of modern fish diversity on the plateau. He will also share field experiences\u2014 month-long camps in desolate salt deserts, expeditions through the Qiangtang National Nature Reserve, and collaborations with mountaineers at a fossil locality at over 6,000 m above sea level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>Courtesy of the speaker; An ammonite fossil from the Mount Qomolangma region \u2013 <em>ammonites in the foreground!-Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Links: <\/strong>Pending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorset Geologist\u2019s Association Group (DGAG) will host a talk on the Tuesday 21st October 2025. Title: From Tethys to the Himalaya \u2014 Fossil Fishes Witnessed the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau\u2019s Dramatic Transformation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/event\/talk-provisonal-title-recent-progress-in-the-palaeoichthyology-of-the-tibetan-plateau\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Talk &#8211; From Tethys to the Himalaya \u2014 Fossil Fishes Witnessed the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau\u2019s Dramatic Transformation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"Europe\/London","_EventStartDate":"2025-10-21 19:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2025-10-21 20:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2025-10-21 18:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2025-10-21 19:00:00","_EventShowMap":true,"_EventShowMapLink":true,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"\u00a3","_EventCurrencyCode":"GBP","_EventCurrencyPosition":"prefix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[3105],"_EventVenueID":[3045],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[152,207,206,205],"tribe_events_cat":[53],"class_list":["post-4207","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dgag-talk-series","tag-fossil-fish","tag-ichthyology","tag-tibet","tribe_events_cat-dgag","cat_dgag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4207\/revisions\/4306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}