Key Points
The uplift event (~10.5–8 Ma) revealed by glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers temperature records from the Xining Basin is synchronous with regional drying
The cooling amplitude over land is less than that over the ocean during the CO2‐dominated Late Miocene cooling event (~7–5.4 Ma)
Tectonic forcing, rather than pCO2, dominated regional continental climate patterns and ecosystem transitions during the Late Miocene
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