A pollen record of Holocene climatic changes from the Dunde ice cap, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 135-138

  Liu, Kam Biu ^a   Yao, Zuju ^a   Thompson, Lonnie G ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; SNOW; VEGETATION;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; GREENHOUSE WARMING; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION DENSITY;

ICE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; ICE CAP; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; VEGETATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; PALAEOCLIMATE CHANGE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; DUNDE ICE CAP; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0031982025     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0135:APROHC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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