Implications of lake level variations at 6 ka and 18 ka in mainland Asia

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 59-72

  Qin, Boqiang ^a   Yu, Ge ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

18 kaBP, 6 kaBP; Lake status; Mainland Asia; Monsoon; Westlies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031805436     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(98)00036-8     Document Type: Article

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