The following supporting information contains: The detailed location and
age data for the thermochronology used in this study, and their
associated publications, paleogeographical reconstructions, bouguer
gravity anomaly (crustal thickness) for Central Asia, averaged modern
rainfall for Central Asia and paleoclimate simulation methods.
Table
S1. List of samples, latitude, longitude (WGS84), reported age,
reported error, associated publication, and thermochronometric method.
Table
S2. A complete list of publications used in this study. Publications
which did not provide precise latitude and longitude measurements are
noted. Thermochronometric ages can be found in Table S1.
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