title: Reply to Sun et al.: Confirming the evidence for Late Oligocene-Early Miocene birth of the Taklimakan Desert.
authors.affiliation: School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China; Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; zhenghb@njnu.edu.cn xcwnju@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Hongbo
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authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China; zhenghb@njnu.edu.cn xcwnju@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Xiaochun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan;
authors.forename: Ryuji
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authors.lastname: Tada
authors.affiliation: Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803;
authors.forename: Peter D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Clift
authors.affiliation: Tourism and Environment College, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China;
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Western Australian Argon Isotope Facility, Department of Applied Geology and John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.
authors.forename: Fred
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jourdan
authors.affiliation: School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China;
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China;
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