Editing Thar Desert (section)

===Ice-age desertification ===
{{anchor | Ice | Tibet }}
During the [[Last Glacial Maximum]] 20,000 before present, an approximately {{convert|2400000|km2|sqmi}} ice sheet covered the [[Tibetan Plateau#==Glaciology|Tibetan Plateau]],<ref>{{cite journal|first=Matthias|last=Kuhle|year=1998|title=Reconstruction of the 2.4 Million km<sup>2</sup> Late Pleistocene Ice Sheet on the Tibetan Plateau and its Impact on the Global Climate|journal=Quaternary International|volume=45/46|pages=71–108|doi=10.1016/S1040-6182(97)00008-6|bibcode=1998QuInt..45...71K}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Kuhle|first=M|year=2004|chapter=The High Glacial (Last Ice Age and LGM) ice cover in High and Central Asia|title=Development in Quaternary Science 2c (Quaternary Glaciation – Extent and Chronology, Part III: South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica)|editor1-last=Ehlers|editor1-first=J.|editor2-last=Gibbard|editor2-first=P.L.|pages=175–99}}</ref><ref name=K1999>{{cite journal|last=Kuhle|first=M.|year=1999|journal=GeoJournal|volume=47|issue=1–2|title=Tibet and High Asia V. Results of Investigations into High Mountain Geomorphology, Paleo-Glaciology and Climatology of the Pleistocene|pages=3–276|doi=10.1023/A:1007039510460| s2cid=128089823 }}
See chapter entitled: "Reconstruction of an approximately complete Quaternary Tibetan Inland Glaciation between the Mt. Everest and Cho Oyu Massifs and the Aksai Chin. – A new glaciogeomorphological southeast-northwest diagonal profile through Tibet and its consequences for the glacial isostasy and Ice Age cycle".</ref> causing excessive [[radiative forcing]] i.e. the ice in Tibet reflected at least four times more radiation energy per unit area into space than ice at higher [[latitude]]s, which  further cooled overlying atmosphere at that time.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kuhle|first=M.|year=1988|title=The Pleistocene Glaciation of Tibet and the Onset of Ice Ages – An Autocycle Hypothesis|journal=GeoJournal|volume=17|issue=4|id=Tibet and High-Asia I. Results of the Sino-German Joint Expeditions (I)|pages=581–96|doi=10.1007/BF00209444| s2cid=129234912 }}</ref> This impacted the regional climate. Without the [[thermal low]] pressure caused by the heating, there was no [[monsoon]] over the [[Indian subcontinent]]. This lack of monsoon caused [[pluvial|extensive rainfall]] over the [[Sahara]], expansion of the Thar Desert, more dust deposited into the [[Arabian Sea]], a lowering of the [[life zone|biotic life zones]] on the Indian subcontinent, and animals responded to this shift in climate with the [[Javan rusa]] deer migrating into India.<ref name=K2001>{{cite journal|first=Matthias|last=Kuhle|year=2001|title=The Tibetan Ice Sheet; its Impact on the Palaeomonsoon and Relation to the Earth's Orbital Variations|journal=Polarforschung|volume=71|pages=1–13|issue=1/2}}</ref>