Editing Yellow River (section)

== Geology ==
The Yellow River first formed sometime during the [[Late Miocene]], [[Pliocene]] or [[Pleistocene]],<ref name=":03">{{Cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Xin |last2=Hu |first2=Gang |last3=Saito |first3=Yoshiki |last4=Ni |first4=Guanzhong |last5=Hu |first5=Han |last6=Yu |first6=Ziying |last7=Chen |first7=Jingping |last8=Wang |first8=Mi |last9=Yuan |first9=Xiaoping |last10=Wang |first10=Lei |last11=Hu |first11=Zhenbo |last12=Nie |first12=Junsheng |last13=Pan |first13=Baotian |title=Did the modern Yellow River form at the Mid-Pleistocene transition? |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2095927322002365#:~:text=The%20incision%20of%20the%20Sanmen,Plateau%20to%20global%20climate%20change. |journal=Science Bulletin |date=2022 |volume=67 |issue=15 |pages=1603–1610 |doi=10.1016/j.scib.2022.06.003 |pmid=36546288 |bibcode=2022SciBu..67.1603W |via=Elsevier Science Direct}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Xue |first=Chunting |date=August 1993 |title=Historical changes in the Yellow River delta, China |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240420103 |journal=Marine Geology  |volume=113 |issue=3–4 |pages=321–330 |doi=10.1016/0025-3227(93)90025-Q|bibcode=1993MGeol.113..321X }}</ref> as a result of the [[Tibetan Plateau]] being uplifted.<ref name=":03" /><ref name=":022"/><ref>Zhenbo Hu, Baotian Pan, Lianyong Guo, Jef Vandenberghe, Xiaopeng Liu, Junping Wang, Yunlong Fan, Junwei Mao, Hongshan Gao, Xiaofei Hu, ''Rapid fluvial incision and headward erosion by the Yellow River along the Jinshaan gorge during the past 1.2 Ma as a result of tectonic extension.'' Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 133, 2016, Pages 1–14, ISSN 0277-3791, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.003.</ref>