A 400,000 year record of vegetational and climatic changes from a volcanic basin, Leizhou Peninsula, southern China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 339-362

  Zheng, Z ^a   Lei, Z Q ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China Offshore Oil Nanhai East Corporation   (China)

Author keywords

Long lacustrine sequence; Middle and Late Quaternary; Paleoclimate and paleomonsoon; Pollen analysis; Southern China

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY; VOLCANIC LANDFORM;

CHINA;

EID: 0033081374     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00107-2     Document Type: Article

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