title: Refuting the evidence for an earlier birth of the Taklimakan Desert.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; jmsun@mail.igcas.ac.cn brent.alloway@vuw.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Jimin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6012, New Zealand; jmsun@mail.igcas.ac.cn brent.alloway@vuw.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Brent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Alloway
authors.affiliation: Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;
authors.forename: Xiaomin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: Department of Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester LEI 7RH, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Brian F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Windley