Deep sea and lake records of the Southeast Asian paleomonsoons for the last 25 thousand years

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 146, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 59-72

  Huang, Chi Yue ^a   Liew, Ping Mei ^a   Zhao, Meixun ^b   Chang, Tzu Chun ^a   Kuo, Chao Ming ^a   Chen, Min Te ^c   Wang, Chung Ho ^d   Zheng, Lian Fu ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^e Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Monsoons; South China Sea; Southeast Asia; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DEEP SEA/LAKE RECORDS; MONSOON SYSTEM; MONSOONS; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOMONSOON; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY CLIMATE;

ASIA, (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 0030948910     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(96)00203-8     Document Type: Article

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